{"id":614935,"date":"2022-07-15T13:30:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T17:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=614935"},"modified":"2022-07-15T13:30:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T17:30:38","slug":"serge-gnabry-bayern-munich-new-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/15\/serge-gnabry-bayern-munich-new-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayern Munich Forward Reportedly Agrees New Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/15\/robert-lewandowski-barcelona-bayern-munich-2\/\" target=\"_self\">Bayern Munich<\/a> forward Serge Gnabry has agreed a new long-term contract with the club, reports The Athletic&#8217;s David Ornstein.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old was linked with a move away from the Bavarian giants this summer but has ended that speculation with this decision.<\/p>\n<p>His current deal was due to expire this summer but he is set to sign this new deal in the next few days, extending a stay that began in 2017.<\/p>\n<h2>Serge Gnabry to Sign New Bayern Munich Deal<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 EXCL: Serge Gnabry has ended speculation over his future by agreeing a new contract with Bayern Munich. 27yo winger set to sign long-term deal in coming days. Interest from some of Europe\u2019s biggest clubs but priority was always <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FCBayern?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#FCBayern<\/a> @TheAthleticUK <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CKcRhKgefJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/CKcRhKgefJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Ornstein (@David_Ornstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/David_Ornstein\/status\/1547896286820519936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Brilliant Bayern Spell<\/h3>\n<p>Since joining Bayern from Werder Bremen in 2017, Gnabry has gone on to establish himself as one of the elite performers in European football.<\/p>\n<p>Bayern have won the Bundesliga in every season since he joined, as well as adding two DFB German Cups, three German Supercups and the 2020 Champions League and the 2020 Club World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>He has scored 63 goals in that time, a major contribution to a massively successful period for Bayern.<\/p>\n<p>There can be no question about his importance to the club, so seeing him leave this summer would have been a massive blow.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Serge Gnabry has agreed a new long-term contract with FC Bayern. Gnabry\u2019s new deal is set to be signed in the coming days [<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/David_Ornstein?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@David_Ornstein<\/a>] <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lVOTOnvrLw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/lVOTOnvrLw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bayern &amp; Germany (@iMiaSanMia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iMiaSanMia\/status\/1547897059167969282?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Premier League Interest<\/h3>\n<p>Gnabry came through the ranks at Arsenal and had a brief loan spell at West Bromwich Albion, so is known to Premier League audiences already.<\/p>\n<p>There had been reports linking him with a return to England, most notably to Chelsea where<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/football\/2022\/07\/11\/chelsea-eye-swoop-ex-arsenal-winger-serge-gnabry-raphinha-alternative\/?utm_content=football&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_campaign=Echobox&amp;utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1657566005\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> The Telegraph&#8217;s<\/a> Matt Law reported they had considered the German as an alternative to Raphinha.<\/p>\n<p>Raphinha has since <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LUFC\/status\/1547930258376048640?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">joined Barcelona<\/a>, and with Gnabry now set to stay at Bayern, Chelsea will have to look elsewhere for a replacement for Hakim Ziyech, who is likely to leave.<\/p>\n<p>Gnabry had also been linked with a return to Arsenal, but Fabrizio Romano, in his column for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caughtoffside.com\/2022\/07\/12\/arsenal-raphinha-transfer-alternative-not-gnabry\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Caught Offside<\/a>, said that despite rumours, Arsenal would be looking elsewhere for alternatives to Raphinha, who they had also been interested in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bayern Munich forward Serge Gnabry has agreed a new long-term contract with the club, reports The Athletic&#8217;s David Ornstein. The 27-year-old was linked with a move away from the Bavarian giants this summer but has ended that speculation with this decision. His current deal was due to expire this summer but he is set to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":614939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7188,1364,4],"tags":[3198],"class_list":["post-614935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rumours","category-bayern-munich","category-bundesliga","tag-serge-gnabry"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}