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Player: Bayern wants to sign the Tower in advance to play the Club World Cup, and the pharmaceutical factory asks for millions of euros transfer fees

12:04am, 25 May 2025【Football】

May 24th Bayern will sign Leverkusen defender Jonatan Ta who will become a free agent after June 30 this year. German media "Kickers" reported that since Bayern wants to bring the player to the Club World Cup starting in mid-June, he will have to pay a transfer fee to Leverkusen for this.

"Kicker" said that the game between Bayern and Leverkusen on Jonathan-Ta transfer fee will be staged again a year later. In the tug-of-war last summer, Bayern proposed a plan of 25 million euros fixed transfer fee + 5 million euros floating bonus through the agent of Towers, who served as the intermediary. However, after the deadline set by Leverkusen expired in early August, their offer was reduced to 20 million euros plus 5 million euros floating bonus. It's not a decent approach, but it's a fairly common way to lower prices when seller clubs are at risk of losing their transfer fees completely in the next year.

The key is that Leverkusen refused to cooperate with the game, but insisted on leaving the tower. At that time, the pharmaceutical factory CEO Carlo was particularly angry. He slammed Bayern Sports director Ebert: "I have no good impression of Max Ebert, at all." Ebert was a key figure in Bayern's leading transfer matters last year and now.

Although Bayern's trading practices last year did not win any favors in Leverkusen, this is not the main reason why pharmaceutical companies are asking for millions of euros to release the tower in advance. Instead, Bayern is expected to receive a generous bonus in the Club World Cup: you can get $2 million for every group match, you can get $7.5 million for advance to the quarterfinals, and you can get an additional $13.125 million for entering the quarterfinals.

In other words, Bayern could receive a prize of about 23.4 million euros in the June game alone. However, due to their shortage of personnel on the defense line, Bayern's chances would be significantly reduced without the tower, so Leverkusen wanted to get a share of it.

Leverkusen's position is clear: Bayern won't get anything for free. In addition, they do not want to help Bayern further expand its already existing economic advantages through the Club World Cup. Therefore, pharmaceutical companies have set a transfer fee requirement for early release of Jonathan-Tao, which is roughly equivalent to the amount Bayern wanted to save last summer (about 5 million euros).

Unless Bayern would rather give up on Jonathan-Ta until the quarterfinals that began in July - but this would put Bayern at risk of losing more millions of euros. In the Club World Cup, advancing to the semi-finals, finals and winning the championship will also bring a total of US$91 million in prize money.

Therefore, it is foreseen that Bayern is likely to pay millions of euros for the player they could have obtained for free in exchange for his right to use in four games - after all, the Club World Cup alone can bring more than 100 million euros in profits.