Joshua Kimmich has been in recent markets always related to an interest of the FC Barcelonaeven reciprocated. The Barcelona club’s problems with financial fair play have decisively boycotted the possibility of a signing whose technical qualities never offered any doubt. With a contract until 2025 with Bayern, the Bavarian club seems to have recovered with the arrival of the Belgian to the bench Vincent Kompany to a player who has been in an uncomfortable situation in Munich for a long time. Although the contract of Kimmich, a 29-year-old German international, remains valid until the end of the current season, football conditions now seem much more conducive to the fruition of an extension that for months and months remained very stagnant. A study of Football Observatory (CIES) with its weekly report that analyzes the performances of midfielders in the 18 best European leagues, places Kimmich as the safest footballer in the world when it comes to handling the ball under high rival pressure, with a very high percentage of success in delivery which reaches 95.8%.
The study took into account all midfielders who faced at least 60 high-pressure situations, with a minimum of one opponent close to their position in the center of the field. The study concerns the first month of the current season on the safest footballers who got out of a ‘quagmire’ without losing possession of the ball.
The supremacy of Kimmich in that facet of the game it is very clear, since the second most outstanding midfielder in that virtue is the Italian Samuele Ricciof the Turinwith 92.5% and that even sounded like a replacement for the injured Rodri Hernandez in it Manchester City.
After them, in the European leagues, the most ‘safe’ is the Frenchman Aurelien Tchouaméniof the real Madridwith a 92% success rate in situations under pressure. In the League there are no more players among the first 20 classified.
The context of Kimmich has changed at Bayern following the arrival of Kompany. After having been moved to the right side lane by both Thomas Tuchel at Bayern and by the German coach Julian Naggelsmannthe recovery of gallons in Kimmich’s Munich following the arrival of Kompany He has even changed the air of his public demonstrations, although at the moment his contract is only valid until June 2025, that is, at the end of the current season. “Until six weeks ago I was still a candidate to leave. In football, things happen very, very quickly,” he commented. Kimmich in an interview for BR24 Sport. Your opinion about Kompany revealed a very different state of mind from that of past months, when the German international was debating his fit in Bayern and the German national team football. “We have a very good professional relationship, his idea of the game benefits me a lot,” he highlighted about the Belgian coach.
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This contract extension, which, in terms of its negotiation, has experienced many ups and downs, now seems much more favorable, although today Kimmich would be less than three months away from being the owner of his future in terms of the freedom to speak with the team you want. He has not lacked suitors and will not lack them, among other reasons for a technical virtue highly appreciated in any team.
In late August, Germany’s Sky Sports reported that Kimmich had rejected strong concrete interest from PSG. A couple of weeks ago, after Bayern’s 1-6 defeat to Holstein Kiel in the Bundesliga, he said he was “open” to a renewal, perceiving the “pleasant” turn that the club had taken regarding the footballer. Max Eberl, Bayern’s sporting director, assured that “Kimmich must be one of the club’s references in the future.”