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Earlier this year, representatives of one of the Bundesliga’s budding superstars met with a delegation from Bayern Munich. Their client is likely to move to a bigger club at the end of the current season, and Bayern, the German champion, is one of half a dozen potential suitors. But first, his agents wanted to discover what plans the club’s hierarchy had for their player.
The tone of the meeting was cordial — Bayern prides itself on its hospitality, its clubby atmosphere — but it was not, from the agents’ point of view, especially productive.
Bayern did not offer a detailed pitch, a clear blueprint of how a career might develop under its care.