Nübel: No to Bavaria, if newer stays

The currently valid contract content clearly says: Alexander Nübel (25) has been loaned by FC Bayern to AS Monaco until the end of the 2022/23 season. "I will stay in Monaco for another year and a half," says the goalkeeper himself, "stood now, I will return in 2023." However, he naturally noticed the efforts of the German record champions in southern France to extend the contract with Manuel Neuer (36), which runs until 2023, by another season, i.e. until 2024.

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If Manu is still there, it makes no sense that I come back.

Alexander Nübel

Nübel has a clear opinion about this constellation. "If Manuel is still there," he says, "I think it won't work anymore." Then the FC Bayern had to be agreed, "How we can find the best solution, but I think if Manu is still there, it makes no sense that I come back." He has not yet forgotten the 2020/21 season with just four competitive operations for FCB. Another loan period like the current "you can think about", says Nübel, but finds such a model "difficult". Rather, he is "basically for the fact that I generally put a different way".

Or it would have to be agreed again which clubs would come into question "and what the future will look like in Munich". He is "basically open to this," says the goalkeeper, but he "tends to make a real decision". FC Bayern is an option for him. "If I have the opportunity to be number 1 there, I would never say no," he explains. "Perhaps the view has changed a bit that other options are also up for debate." So it no longer has to be the FC Bayern.

early farewell from Monaco? "A lot would have to happen"

With an early farewell from Monaco at the end of the current round, "I didn't even deal with," says Nübel, and AS Monaco and Bayern Munich would have to agree. "A lot should happen." The keeper does not expect such a development.

Nübel's professional prospects are not limited by the dream of a special league, whether Premier League in England or La Liga in Spain. The overall package with the club and goalkeeper coach must be right. The Champions League, which is possible for his Monegassian team after seven victories in a row in the coming season - the club is in 4th place, tied with the third racing and three points behind the second from Marseille - "is always a goal for me", but not a prerequisite for both election of the employer.

Klipp and clearly, Nübel replies to the corresponding Bayern Munich question: "I can also imagine returning to the Bundesliga if the club is not called Bavaria Munich. In any case."

"Hope, pray and fever with": declaration of love at Schalke 04

Meanwhile, he gives a declaration of love to his previous club FC Schalke 04. "I hope and pray and fever that the club will go up," he says, hoping that the return to the Bundesliga may succeed this weekend. "I love this club," emphasizes Nübel after the not so harmonious farewell in 2020 and entered a comeback in his professional plans, "in the next one or two years not", but what "at the end of my career or in three, four years "will pass.

For the 17-time goalkeeper of German U 21, the national team must of course also be an issue, at least in mind. With a participation in the World Cup in Qatar, he had "dealt with zero -commerce" and "no hope". There is "no exchange" with the DFB - understandable for him, "we have great goalkeepers in Germany, all of which play at a high level". In addition, he "doesn't wait every day for a call".

But what about the 2022 World Cup? The situation was "open" and would be decided on the performance. And thanks to the permanent game practice, he increased as a personality, communication and in the field of self -confidence thanks to the permanent practice.