Bayern tell Perez to save himself the trouble over Olise

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SoccerGuy777

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Bayern president Herbert Hainer has come out very firmly on Michael Olise, saying he is a Bayern player on a long-term contract and that Bayern are not a selling club. He even had a little dig at Florentino Pérez, saying he can save himself the trouble if he wants to send a bid.

It feels like one of those statements that is meant to shut the whole thing down before it becomes a summer circus, but of course it probably just guarantees weeks of speculation anyway. Real Madrid and Bayern always seem to end up in these little media wars.

What do people make of it - genuine line in the sand, or just strong public posturing to remind everyone who holds the cards?
 
Real Madrid media will still turn this into a week long soap opera anyway, first itll be Bayern refusing a bid then suddenly its Olise dreaming of Madrid and all the usual nonsense starts again because apparently summer cannot begin without this exact circus
 
It is pretty standard strong-arm talk from Bayern. They are trying to make the price and the narrative as awkward as possible for Madrid, which is fair enough. Whether it changes anything depends on the player, but the public stance is very clear.
 
The referee in this whole thing is the football media and they are absolutely useless at it every single time, they let Perez and the big clubs run the show then act shocked when every story becomes a three month nonsense cycle with the same recycled quotes and the same fake tension, one day its Bayern saying no, next day its Spanish outlets saying maybe, then suddenly there is a bid that never existed, then some pundit starts waffling about ambition and history like that has anything to do with an actual contract, honestly they just hand out yellow cards to everyone except the people causing the mess and it is boring as hell
 
Bayern are just doing what any top club should do here, make it publicly awkward and show they are under no pressure to sell. If Olise is really settled then Madrid can stare at the statement all summer and get nowhere tbh
 
This reminds me of a night in the pub when one lad kept insisting he was definitely going home early and we all knew he was not going anywhere, same energy here really because Bayern are basically stood at the bar saying no chance mate while Madrid are outside acting like they have already booked the taxi, and somehow the whole room still ends up talking about it for hours even though nothing has actually happened
 
If this turns into another endless Real Madrid chase then fair enough but the bigger issue for Bayern is still whether the player keeps performing and stays happy, because a statement on its own does not scare off elite clubs forever, and if Madrid really want him they will keep poking until someone gets annoyed, but honestly the whole thing is so tiresome when you can already see the usual suspects spinning it into a saga and acting like Olise is some unfinished transfer project waiting for permission, the lad is at Bayern on a long-term deal and that should be the end of it, not a daily obsession with every quote and every whisper
 
Bayern are basically trying to remove leverage before any conversation even starts which is sensible, because if you publicly sound desperate then the buying club gets to dictate the whole thing, and with a player like Olise you want the market to know there is no pressure to move him on. It is just basic negotiating
 
People always act like these statements are random but they are not, they are a message to the player, to the buying club and to the press all at once, and Bayern know exactly what they are doing by making it sound final before anything even starts, because once the story gets legs it becomes impossible to stop and every outlet starts pretending there is a battle when there might not even be a proper bid, and honestly Real Madrid fans need to calm down with this stuff too because every summer they want a new superstar and every summer someone has to act surprised when the selling club says no, it is all part of the same circus and the circus is getting boring now
 
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