Title, loyalty or new top club ?: Alaba makes itself a mystery

Title, loyalty or a new top club?
Alaba makes itself a puzzle

David Alaba is Austria's footballer of the year for the seventh time. This choice doesn't knock anyone in Bavaria's triple year. What's more exciting is how it goes on. Does the future of the Munich defense chief lie in Madrid? At the start of the new year facts could be created.

This very personal title addition is logical. At the end of the terrific triple year with FC Bayern, David Alaba can look forward to being voted Austria's Footballer of the Year. "It is a huge honor. I am very grateful for this award," said the 28-year-old of the APA news agency, which holds the election in Alaba's homeland. As expected the clear vote of the coaches of the Austrian Bundesliga club, Alaba's future is uncertain.

The seventh award as Austria's Kicker of the Year could have been the last for record winner Alaba as a Bayern professional. Because the signs for 2021 are still on separation in summer; after then 13 years, which are a success story. Bayern's defense chief answers questions about the future consistently defensively, also in the APA interview: "I know that all the trappings are part of it, but I've already said a lot on the subject and don't really want to add anything more." He added something: "My personal feeling has not changed. I am happy to be part of this team. I have a contract until the summer and we have set ourselves high goals as a team that I want to achieve." Ideally, his third triple after 2013 and 2020 will work out.

Radio silence after the bang

At the beginning of November there was a bang with the ingrown in Munich. The German record champions withdrew their contract offer after Alaba and his advisor Pini Zahavi had allowed a deadline set by the club to pass. Since then there has been radio silence. There were no more conversations, reported Karl-Heinz Rummenigge just last Sunday as a guest in the Sport1 "double pass". The Bayern boss again assured that the league croesus – even in financially difficult Corona times – had presented the Alaba party with a "more than honorable offer" after several rounds of negotiations: "FC Bayern has put everything into the balance was. " Many steps have been taken towards the Alaba party, which also includes his father.

Rummenigge still believes that Alaba would like to remain a Bayern player. "We all appreciate David. He's a nice, fine guy with the small, crucial problem: We haven't been able to come to an agreement with him so far." It's now Alaba and the dazzling Zahavi, who, by the way, also advises Bayern's world footballer Robert Lewandowski.

"If David would come …"

The situation will change on January 1, 2021. With the start of the new year, Alaba is allowed to sign a contract with a new employer. At 28 he is of a good age. In addition, Alaba can transfer free of charge in the summer. That automatically makes it interesting for many top European clubs, but all of them are groaning under extreme corona losses. The Spanish sports newspaper "Marca" already sees Alaba's future at Real Madrid. Since everything is always imaginable in football, the office doors of the Munich board members on Säbener Strasse could open again, as Rummenigge suggested: "If David came and said he would like to have another conversation …"

Bayern's coach would welcome this step. Hansi Flick didn't just say once that he would be "very, very happy" if Alaba stayed. After all, he promoted him from full-back to head of defense. "He has increased his unbelievable level again and has become one of the best players in the world in what was initially unfamiliar to him in central defense. He was an important cornerstone in our team and made a huge contribution to our five titles have won, "said Flick on the occasion of Alaba's current award in his home country.

Alaba clearly prevailed with 33 points ahead of Leipzig's Marcel Sabitzer (17 points) and Dominik Szoboszlai (23), who will move from Red Bull Salzburg to RB Leipzig this winter. Alaba is the successor of the Norwegian Erling Haaland, who stormed for Salzburg when he was elected last year and moved to Borussia Dortmund in early 2020.

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