#Bayern Munich

#Bayern Munich

a voice that was neither loud nor dramatic, but warm, confident, almost homely. You could hear in it the maturity of a journey that had taken her from Iceland to Sweden and then on to Munich. To the place where she found more than just a job. "I've been happy and proud to be part of this team for a long time," she says with conviction.

Bayern Munich defender Josip Stanišić received plenty of playing time at left-back, right-back, and center-back in the first half of the season. However, that will likely change now that Alphonso Davies and Hiroki Itō have returned. All of a sudden, Stanišić will be scrapping for minutes with the aforementioned returnees, plus Konrad Laimer, Sacha Boey (for now), and Kim Min-jae. Even with his ability to play anywhere across the backline, the Croatian knows it will be a fight.

Jonathan Tah's signing at Bayern Munich was a long time in the making. Bayern first approach him in 2024 and tried until the end of the summer transfer window to lock the German international down, but negotiations with then-club Bayer Leverkusen fell apart in the end. A year later, Tah's contract expired and allowed the Bavarians to pick the former Hamburger SV defender up without negotiating with their Bundesliga rivals.

Neuer would not be able to surpass that number this season - but if he stays healthy, he would get close and another year should do it comfortably. That adds some context to the Neuer contract extension watch, but the man himself is not really thinking about it.

"The first time I took a shower, all the emotions came out. I was crying, doubting myself, but I had someone beside me to tell me that everything's gonna be okay," said Davies. "I was praying it wasn't anything serious, but when I got out of the MRI, they told me it was an ACL and meniscus; my whole energy went out of my body, all the confidence I had just escaped. "I remember the first couple of weeks, between six and eight weeks, I wasn't able to walk. I had to be on crutches...When you're up there working out, and you see all your friends, having fun playing football, and sometimes you think to yourself, 'I wish I was out there.' It's like when your mom says you can't go outside and then you see all your friends running around outside, that's basically how I felt at that moment."