🚨 Christian Falk's Fact Files - Liverpool & Xavi Simons, Musiala to Man City latest, Alonso summer 2025 plans, Man United January transfer opportunity and more

Today's exclusive transfer round-up from Bundesliga insider Christian Falk, featuring Bayern Munich, Liverpool, Bayer Leverkusen, Manchester United and more

[From left to right: Jamal Musiala, Xavi Simons and Leon Goretzka]

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Today’s top stories

• What does the future hold for Jamal Musiala? Stay at Bayern? Or Premier League transfer?

• Liverpool and Manchester United hold transfer advantage with Xavi Simons…

• Is a move to Real Madrid in 2025 inevitable for Xabi Alonso?

• And further updates on Jonathan Tah, Florian Wirtz, Leroy Sane and more!

BAYERN MUNICH

Jonathan Tah has played every minute of Leverkusen’s 2024/25 Bundesliga campaign - (Photo by Alex Grimm/Getty Images)

Bayern Munich are still interested in completing a move for Jonathan Tah next year by which point he’ll become a free agent. It wasn’t possible to sign him this summer, as Bayern’s supervisory board said he would be too expensive a potential incoming if they couldn’t also offload Kingsley Coman in the same window. However, if he’s a free agent - there’s a big chance to get him! They already had an agreement on the potential contract (€9m plus €3m in add-ons) - not bad money! You can find out the salaries of all of Bayern’s players in the new episode of my podcast, FC Bayern Insider.

Chelsea were always interested in Tah. They have a dossier on the centre-back and have followed his whole career, but because of the financial pressure the Premier League now also feels, they made a decision internally that new players should just earn £70,000-a-week (£3.64m/€4.3m a year). So, you see, that’s perhaps a third of the amount Bayern would be prepared to pay for him, so it will be very hard for Chelsea to get Jonathan Tah next summer.