{"id":104427,"date":"2025-10-12T14:04:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T14:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/?p=104427"},"modified":"2025-10-12T14:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T14:04:16","slug":"dayot-upamecano-rejects-bayern-munich-contract-extension-with-liverpool-lurking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/2025\/dayot-upamecano-rejects-bayern-munich-contract-extension-with-liverpool-lurking\/","title":{"rendered":"Dayot Upamecano rejects Bayern Munich contract extension with Liverpool lurking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Plettigoal\/status\/1977033106671513870\"><strong>Florian Plettenberg<\/strong><\/a> reports that Dayot Upamecano&#8217;s entourage have rejected the terms of a new long-term-contract offered by Bayern Munich. According to the<strong> Sky<\/strong> journalist, Bayern&#8217;s initial tender failed to meet the player&#8217;s financial expectations. Upamecano&#8217;s contract with the Bundesliga outfit expires at the end of the current season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While there theoretically remains plenty of time for the two sides to come to terms, Upamecano&#8217;s contract status leaves him free to negotiate a free transfer to another club as soon as the January transfer window opens in less than three months&#8217; time. Bayern will have to begin contemplating a January sale of the centre-back in order to avoid losing him on a free.<\/p>\n<p>Upamecano has started seven of eight competitive fixtures thus far this year for the German record champions. The 26-year-old &#8211; presently valued at \u20ac50m &#8211; has also started and gone the full 90 minutes for the French national team in his country&#8217;s last three World Cup Qualifying fixtures.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Given that Bayern possess a qualified central defensive duo in the form of Kim-min Jae and Jonathan Tah (plus the injured Hiroki Ito) a January sale may be contemplated. <strong>Plettenberg\u00a0<\/strong>reports that Premier League Champions Liverpool remain very interested in Upamecano&#8217;s services.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/\">GGFN<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PeterVicey\"><strong>Peter Weis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sky Germany&#8217;s Florian Plettenberg reports that Dayot Upamecano&#8217;s entourage have rejected the terms of a new long-term contract tendered by Bayern Munich. A move to Liverpool this coming January could be in the cards.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12312420,"featured_media":104428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[443,11,336],"tags":[449,1029,138,1083,750,1823,1028,1956],"class_list":["post-104427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transfer-market","category-bundesliga","category-fc-bayern-munich","tag-bundesliga","tag-dayot-upamecano","tag-france","tag-hiroki-ito","tag-jonathan-tah","tag-min-jae-kim","tag-news","tag-transfer-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12312420"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104429,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104427\/revisions\/104429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}