{"id":496138,"date":"2026-06-12T14:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/496138\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T14:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:11:08","slug":"falk-bayern-munich-were-concretely-interested-in-rio-ngumoha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/496138\/","title":{"rendered":"Falk: Bayern Munich were ‘concretely interested’ in Rio Ngumoha"},"content":{"rendered":"

A German football insider has shared some eye-opening details about reported communication between Bayern Munich and a representative of Rio Ngumoha in recent days.<\/p>\n

As reported by The Athletic<\/a> last week, the Bavarian giants had been \u2018exploring a surprise move\u2019 for the Liverpool winger, who\u2019s understood to have been \u2018aware of Bayern\u2019s strong interest and intentions\u2019, although there was no contact between the two clubs.<\/p>\n

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Anfield chiefs have unsurprisingly maintained that the 17-year-old isn\u2019t for sale under any circumstances this summer, and ex-Manchester United chief scout Mick Brown claimed that the L4 hierarchy \u2018will be fuming\u2019<\/a> with the covert approach from the Bundesliga champions.<\/p>\n

What Ngumoha\u2019s brother apparently told Bayern<\/p>\n

German football journalist Christian Falk has reported that Bayern have had a \u2018concrete interest\u2019 in Ngumoha, whose brother had apparently indicated to the Munich outfit that the teenage forward would be interest in a move to the Allianz Arena.<\/p>\n

The reporter wrote for\u00a0CF Bayern Insider<\/a>: \u2018It is true: Bayern Munich were concretely interested in Rio Ngumoha.\u00a0There were rumours that his brother, who is involved in his career around transfers, was at S\u00e4bener Stra\u00dfe for talks and signalled that the winger would be interested in going to Bayern Munich, and it would be no issue in sorting out contract details and the salary. <\/p>\n

\u2018FC Bayern had a very clear signal when they knocked on the door at Liverpool that there would be no time or reason for talks; there would be no negotiations. They\u2019re so convinced about the player and his potential that they signalled he wouldn\u2019t be sold. It won\u2019t happen.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Ngumoha would be best served by staying put at Liverpool<\/p>\n

We\u2019d certainly hope that there\u2019s no truth to those \u2018rumours\u2019 of Ngumoha\u2019s brother trying to engineer a move to Bayern with declarations of apparent interest \u2013 Reds fans are all too familiar with tales of players\u2019 siblings being a little bit too involved in their career decisions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The one potential pitfall of how brilliantly the 17-year-old has been performing over the past year is that Europe\u2019s elite will inevitably line themselves up for a cheeky raid on Liverpool, and that certain individuals who don\u2019t have his best intentions at heart could try to meddle in his affairs.<\/p>\n

At Anfield, the winger now has a head coach in Andoni Iraola who\u2019s demonstrably shown faith in young talent from his time at Bournemouth, and it\u2019s quite likely that the Spaniard will give our nuumber 73 plenty of scope to flourish even more from next season.<\/p>\n

Ngumoha\u2019s profile has been further amplified by his impressive performance on his senior England debut last weekend, and he followed that up with a sublime goal in a training match against Miami FC on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Hopefully Liverpool\u2019s clear desire to keep him at all costs will be mirrored by a determination from the player to remain with the club who gave him his breakthrough into first-team football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A German football insider has shared some eye-opening details about reported communication between Bayern Munich and a representative…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-496138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}