{"id":652728,"date":"2025-03-14T09:04:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T13:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=652728"},"modified":"2025-03-14T09:04:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T13:04:53","slug":"bayern-munich-joshua-kimmich-new-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/03\/14\/bayern-munich-joshua-kimmich-new-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayern Munich Midfield ‘Ace’ Extends Contract Until 2029"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bayern Munich finally have clarity regarding their most consistent performer in midfield. After a lengthy back and forth<\/a>, the German national team captain Joshua Kimmich signed a contract extension until 2029 on Thursday. With this key pillar of the Bavarian giants\u2019 squad in place for the years to come, the club hierarchy now have a trio of key players to build the future Bayern Munich team around. Alphonso Davies and Jamal Musiala have signed new contracts until 2030 in February, which is what makes the Kimmich contract extension all the more significant.<\/p>\n

Joshua Kimmich Signs Contract Extension Until 2029<\/h2>\n

The Importance of Joshua Kimmich Contract Extension<\/h3>\n

Bayern\u2019s midfield “ace”<\/a> has been at the club for a decade and is set to become the team\u2019s captain once Manuel Neuer and Thomas M\u00fcller retire.<\/p>\n

Before he suffered a minor injury against Eintracht Frankfurt late last month, Kimmich was the only player in coach Vincent Kompany\u2019s side who had played every minute of every game up to that point.<\/p>\n

Read More: Bayern Munich Ace with \u2018Incredible Ability\u2019 Suffers Injury<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

This confidence that the Belgian tactician who arrived at Bayern in the summer placed in Kimmich and the way that the latter paid back that trust by excelling on the field, opened the door to this agreement.<\/p>\n

Bayern Seemed Far From a Deal Last Summer<\/h3>\n

Going into the Euros on home soil and the last season in the player\u2019s previous contract, his future was very much in doubt.<\/p>\n

Read More: The Grand Duo on the Bayern Munich Board and How To Let Go<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Given Kimmich\u2019s relatively high salary for the club\u2019s standards, along with the team\u2019s historic lack of success last season, Bayern\u2019s hierarchy seemed quite willing to offload their number six and rebuild. Now the rebuilding process will take place around Kimmich instead of without him, as pointed out above.<\/p>\n

Final Thoughts<\/h3>\n

The Kimmich contract extension and also those of Davies and Musiala are major accomplishments by two relative newcomers to the Bayern board, namely sporting director Christoph Freund and sporting CEO Max Eberl.<\/p>\n

After some years of chaos in the front office, Freund and Eberl have brought much-needed clarity and hopefully some calm to the club that used to be known as FC Hollywood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bayern Munich finally have clarity regarding their most consistent performer in midfield. After a lengthy back and forth, the German national team captain Joshua Kimmich signed a contract extension until 2029 on Thursday. With this key pillar of the Bavarian giants\u2019 squad in place for the years to come, the club hierarchy now have a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4762,"featured_media":649592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1364,4,378,30],"tags":[53,739,514],"class_list":["post-652728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bayern-munich","category-bundesliga","category-champions-league","category-news","tag-bayern-munich","tag-joshua-kimmich","tag-vincent-kompany"],"modified_by":"Henry Chung, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652728","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\/4762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652728"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652755,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652728\/revisions\/652755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}