Bara Sapoko Ndiaye looks set for a long-term future at FC Bayern. According to tz, the club will sign the loan midfielder from partner academy Gambino Stars Africa on a permanent deal this summer and may even include the 18-year-old in the first-team squad for next season.<\/p>\n
Manager Vincent Kompany is said to be a driving force behind the move, having first spotted the 18-year-old during a friendly against Grasshoppers Zurich and publicly advocating for his signing.<\/p>\n
Ndiaye had already spent two months training with Bayern’s reserves and U19s in 2025, then completed pre-season with Grasshoppers, who are indirectly linked to the Red&Gold network via majority ownership by Bayern’s partner Los Angeles FC.<\/p>\n
A subsequent friendly against Bayern proved pivotal: under Kompany he trained regularly with the first team from winter onwards, made his Bundesliga debut in mid-April despite injury setbacks, and has since appeared four times, twice from the start.<\/p>\n
Sporting director Christoph Freund told the club magazine 51, “Week after week, we see how he adapts better and better. He has quickly become a valuable part of the team.” Kompany, for his part, lauded the midfielder’s pace, noting that he clocked a club-record 36 km\/h in training. “Things are going well for him,” the head coach concluded.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Freund also rates his rapid integration off the pitch just as highly: “He’s a great character, popular in the dressing room, and he works hard. Communication was important to him from day one, and settling in quickly is no small feat.”<\/p>\n
His integration has been eased by the fact that several Bayern players are fluent in French, with Dayot Upamecano taking the midfielder under his wing; the pair have already shared several meals. Upamecano is “like an older brother” to him, says Bara, and the pair even share a familial link: their mothers both come from the same town in Guinea-Bissau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bara Sapoko Ndiaye looks set for a long-term future at FC Bayern. According to tz, the club will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[200932,14532,200933,4488,85,46,163880,1821,105,9461,14536],"class_list":["post-427751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-b-ndiaye","tag-bayern-munich","tag-bayern-munich-vs-paris-saint-germain","tag-champions-league","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-luis-enrique","tag-paris-saint-germain","tag-sports","tag-transfers","tag-v-kompany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}