Jamal Musiala is crack, and everyone already knows that. The question now is to know to what extent he will be one of the great dominators of European football. His moment of form, in recent weeks, is extraordinary, coinciding with the three goals he scored against Mainz on Wednesday in the Cup. It was the first hat-trick of the career of a boy who will turn 22 next month February.
His season is very good at the moment, and he had a small hip injury that kept him off the pitch during the international break and prevented him from wearing the number 10 of the ‘Mannschaft’ that has belonged to him since the last Euro – where he was one of the six top scorers in the tournament with three goals.
He was also out in two subsequent games (Eintracht and Stuttgart), which has not prevented him from presenting a very appreciable results card in the League and Cup: eight games, seven goals and two assists. In the Champions League he still hasn’t managed to ‘get wet’ (he did attend twice).
But, as important as this is, the feeling that Musiala leaves goes beyond his numbers, and the perception of being a dominant player who ‘dances’ on the field is clear. He leaves beautiful moments, like the ‘tunnel’ he made last weekend against Bochum before assisting Harry Kane in his goal.
Therefore, the insistence of Bayern, his club, in pursuing him to renew him is not trivial. The kid, raised between Germany and England – where he was a teammate of Bellingham -, ends his contract in June 2026. This means that the Bavarian club must be in a hurry, since in June of next year (2025) he will barely have one year left. link, and any major player in Europe – including Real Madrid, if that situation exists – could ‘catch’ the German star for zero euros from the summer of 2026. A luxury that Bayern cannot afford, and has already taken the first steps in that negotiation.
“We are in talks and I am happy here,” Jamal said Wednesday after his hat-trick. Indeed, the talks have already begun. The Bavarian entity wants to make Jamal ‘its Messi’, its ‘flagship’, a potential Ballon d’Or winner that it wants to have at its side. These are the first steps, since money has not yet been discussed.
Musiala, meanwhile, will take some time to think about that specific future offer and the possible options he has in Spain or England (there is no more). You have time. Bayern will go all out for a Bavarian player who wants to dominate Europe.
