Bayern decide not to renew its veteran defender

Press reports in Germany revealed that the German football club Bayern Munich will not renew Jerome Boateng after this season, despite the high level he appeared recently.

And the German newspapers "Bild" and "Sport Bild" wrote today that the Bavarian club has decided not to extend the contract of the defender.

It is noteworthy that Boateng's contract with Bayern will last until the summer of 2021, and according to what the two newspapers have written, there are no talks about his contract, and the newspaper "Bild" reported that Boateng, who has been playing for Bayern since 2011, is disappointed.

The Bavarian club did not comment on what the two newspapers reported, and there was no reaction from the manager of Boateng, who won the 2014 World Cup with Germany.

Boateng, 32, was often a candidate to leave Bayern in the recent period, and Uli Hoeness, the former club president, had described him in the spring of 2019 as a "foreign body" and suggested that he, as a "friend," move to another club.

During the past months, Boateng returned to be one of the good performers in the team again under the leadership of coach Hanzi Flick, and became part of the main formation in six of the seven matches the team played in the current season, and he had scored a goal in his team's match against the Austrian Red Bull in the League The heroes, "It's nice to see that we're all happy because he's worked hard in recent months and made up for so much that he missed," said Flick after the match about Boateng.

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