World star Lionel Messi will not be able to include Julian Nagelsmann in his exquisite Munich training group around world footballer Robert Lewandowski or world goalkeeper Manuel Neuer.

That was "unfortunately not possible", said sports director Hasan Salihamidzic on Sunday in the football talk of the Sport1 channel about daring dreams about the Argentine who has just been released in the Bayern shirt.

The 34-year-old leaves FC Barcelona after more than 20 years. On Sunday there was a tearful farewell in the Catalans' stadium, which was Messi's beloved show stage. Messi would break financial limits in Munich. "We did not negotiate," said Salihamidzic to be on the safe side and cleared the subject off with one sentence: "I hear that these are sums that we cannot imagine at FC Bayern."

But Bayern look very closely at goal scorer Erling Haaland, even if they are top occupied with Lewandowski in attack at least until mid-2023.

“Sure, he's a top player, a super boy, as I hear.

You look there, ”said Salihamidzic about the 21-year-old Norwegian in the service of Borussia Dortmund.

Salihamidzic did not hide a fundamental interest: "60 games, 60 goals, you have to look, otherwise we would be full amateurs." But he also knows: "This is a top player that the whole world wants - probably."

"It doesn't move that right"

At Bundesliga Krösus, in tricky Corona times with sales losses in the three-digit million range, they currently have more to do with the current squad. "We want to keep the trunk," said the sports director. In addition to the over-30 trio Neuer, Lewandowski and Thomas Müller, this also includes the 26-year-old national players Joshua Kimmich and Leon Goretzka. They want to extend with the duo. The talks with Kimmich are very long, and with Goretzka they are back in flux.

Bayern could still be active on the transfer market by the end of the month.

“At the moment we're looking.

It doesn't move that much, ”said Salihamidzic.

In the newspaper Welt am Sonntag, CEO Oliver Kahn affirmed the new route of “generally acting more flexibly in matters of transfers in the future”.

He ruled out a sale from top scorer Lewandowski once more.

"With Robert we would definitely afford to be stubborn."

Salihamidzic expects some players to push into the front row in terms of performance.

"Leroy (Sané) has to take the next step," he demanded.

He also named Serge Gnabry and the currently injured world champion Lucas Hernández, who is to become the "chief of defense".

Bavaria wants to continue to be among the top five in Europe.

Salihamidzic does not see the postponed entry of Munich into the DFB Cup after the corona-related cancellation of the first round match among the amateurs of Bremer SV as a disadvantage for the start in the Bundesliga on Friday at Borussia Mönchengladbach. “That wasn't so negative. We were able to train a little more intensively, ”said Salihamidzic. As a replacement for the game in Bremen that was postponed to August 25, Nagelsmann had eleven against eleven internally in secret training. The new coach could not win any of the four test games in preparation without a number of missing EM participants.

Nagelsmann looks forward to the emergency with confidence. "That doesn't change the conviction of winning a game," he said in a BR interview published on Sunday. At the start of the season, the 34-year-old said: “You have to win the first game in Gladbach and ideally the Supercup. Then the fans are also very friendly. Then we can attack. ”In the game for the first title of the season, Munich will have to play against BVB in Dortmund on August 17th.

Salihamidzic is very impressed by Nagelsmann after a short period of cooperation. As a professional coach, the 34-year-old has not yet won a title. He lost the cup final twice with Leipzig. "He hasn't won a title yet, but that's why he's here," said the sports director. Nagelsmann will "not throw everything over", but give the team and the club "new impulses". Salihamidzic therefore appealed to the stars who won everything with Nagelsmann's predecessor Hansi Flick: "We have to be open to change."