The Bundesliga league leader planned to steer clear of the January transfer market, but untimely injuries suffered by Javi Martinez and Jerome Boateng sparked it into action.
The plan at Bayern Munich was to watch the last-minute hustle and bustle of the January transfer window from a safe distance. Suddenly, though, urgent action was required and the Bundesliga champion had to wade in.
Injuries sustained by Jerome Boateng and Javi Martinez forced Bayern into the market and Serdar Tasci unveiled on Monday evening.
"There's no good player on the market, so we will not do anything," Karl-Heinz Rummenigge had said last week.