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Michael Olise has been mooted as a potential replacement for Mo Salah at Liverpool.
Bayern Munich sporting director Max Eberl has reiterated that Michael Olise will not be for sale this summer.
The winger has been in scintillating form for the Bundesliga champions. Since moving to Bayern from Crystal Palace in 2024, Olise has plundered 39 goals and 52 assists in 101 appearances. He is set to start for Vincent Kompany’s side when they face Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League semi-final first leg tonight, while he will go to the World Cup as a regular starter for France.
But having insisted Olise, under contract until 2029, will be going nowhere previously, Eberl insisted that remains the case.
“Absolutely,” said Eberl. “For us, there is not a second of thinking about it. He is developing excellently.”
Meanwhile, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge - who sits on Bayern’s super-advisory board - claimed that the club would not accept €200 million. Speaking to t-online.com, Rummenigge said: "He's a wonderful player. I also appreciate how reserved and almost media-shy he is. That's rare these days. He's a great guy, and on the pitch, he's outstanding, the way he plays football is almost magical. So it doesn't surprise me that he's incredibly popular and hyped among our fans
"Let me tell you a story from the past. In 2009, we had an incredible offer from Chelsea for Franck Ribéry. At the time, it would have been a new world transfer record. I then went to our then CFO, Karl Hopfner, and Uli Hoeneß with this offer. We discussed it for two hours, trying to figure out what to do with it. That day, we made a fundamental decision: that in the future, we would never sell a player we would miss on the pitch. And this unwritten rule still applies today. For a player like Olise, there's no price tag that would make us flinch."
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