Rangnick’s “no” and Tuchel’s “maybe” further open the door for Kimmich

Joshua Kimmich is the footballer most wanted by the technical staff of FC Barcelona to strengthen their midfield next summer, as MD advances. Everything will be at the expense of the negotiating capacity that Barça may have in the market, depending on LaLiga’s financial permission to act under the 1/1 rule, key to establishing more ambitious goals. In the ranking “of the highest” is the 29-year-old German international, whose situation at Bayern is the most favorable for a long time to think about a possible exit. The news coming out of Munich in recent days adds to the arguments for Kimmich to open up with more determination to change the scenery, unthinkable later. Ralf Ragnick’s refusal to manage the Bayern bench joins Thomas Tuchel’s possible move onwhen all Germany looked forward to his farewell.

Ragnick recently announced that Bayern had contacted him to make him their new coach for next season, but in the last hours Sport Bild revealed that the Austrian coach has agreed to stay in his current position as Austrian coach and fulfill the contract that binds him to that country’s federation until 2026, ruling out his departure from the Bavarian club. The negative is also important in the ‘Kimmich code’. At the beginning of the player’s career, Ragnick and Kimmich spent two seasons at RB Leipzig, where the current Austrian coach is the German club’s sporting director. Kimmich’s opinion is very high Ragnick and this was made clear in an interview with the newspaper Münchner Merkur. “He It was very important to me when I was injured. with swelling in the anus. You would think that with a player who costs money and has only played for two years you would say ‘now we have done something for you; now you have to prove it too’, but Rangnick It gave me time to get in shape and perform at the highest level.; that was incredibly important to me,” Kimmich recalled. Regarding his professional skills, Kimmich did not hesitate to praise Ragnick’s skills. “I would fully trust him, when you see what he has done in the past and what he has achieved in his previous positions,” he pointed out.

At the same time, Tuchel hinted this Friday at the possibility of reconsidering his departure from Bayern. “We have a current contract and we have agreed to terminate it early, everything is always possible,” he said.

As reported throughout the season, as a result of several episodes that appeared to show his distance, Tuchel will not exactly be Kimmich’s ‘head’ coach. In August 2023, it appeared that Kimmich was not happy when the Bayern coach removed him from the axis of Bayern’s midfield to return him to his ‘youthful’ position on the right, a tactical relocation that was later copied by the German coach and former Bayern coach, Julian Nagelsmann, to make room for Toni Kross and invest him as head of ‘mannschaft’ operations. Kimmich showed his discipline throughout the course, adapting to the ‘2’ line with professionalism, but it is clear that his ideal future includes a return to being the boss of a big team from the engine room. That is why clubs like Barça, Manchester City, PSG and even Real Madrid, depending on what Kroos can decide about his future, are attentive to any news.

With a contract until 2025, there have never been too many conditions for Kimmich to consider leaving Bayern. At the same time, at the German club, which has just been relegated from the Bundesliga for the first time in twelve years, The dispatch dilemma is clear: Kimmich’s contract is extended or the next market window is exploited. to get some economic return with highly amortized players at the accounting level. Little wonder, moreover, that in Italy there is talk of Bayern’s interest in a midfielder Kimmich’s age such as Adrien Rabiot, just over a month into his Juventus contract.

Meanwhile, Barça is in an impasse in preparing its market, from cheap to more ambitious goals, depending on LaLiga’s verdict about its financial fair play. From a technical point of view, there is no doubt: Kimmich would be the perfect reinforcement for the midfielder of the future because of what he can contribute on a technical, tactical, physical level and experience in high competition.