Lennart Karl was born in Frammersbach, Bavaria. His entire career to date has taken place in Germany as he has risen to one of the biggest footballing talents of the country at Bayern Munich. Yet his dream club is not in Germany. In a meeting with Bayern\u2019s fan club, the Germany U-21 international was asked if he had a dream club outside of Die Rekordmeister.<\/p>\n
His answer was fairly decisive: \u201cFC Bayern is a very big club. It\u2019s a dream to play there,\u201d Karl said, as captured by @iMiaSanMia<\/a>, before dropping the bombshell. \u201cBut at some point I definitely want to go to Real Madrid. I hope this will stay between us.\u201d<\/p>\n Cameras were recording Karl\u2019s words, so this very much did not stay secret. For those who have been following Karl for a while, his interest in the 15-time Champions League winners is unsurprising. He has been a fan for a while and was even heavily linked with leaving the Bavarians\u2019 academy for Real Madrid for 18 months before signing his professional contract at Bayern in 2025. However, it perhaps dispels any dreams that Karl will follow in fellow academy player Thomas M\u00fcller\u2019s footsteps and stay in Bavaria for the vast majority of his career.<\/p>\n Update \u2014 2:05PM EST: The full video<\/p>\n A video of Lennart Karl\u2019s statement at the fan club today: \u201cFC Bayern is a very very big club. It\u2019s a dream to play there. But at some point I definitely want to go to Real Madrid. That\u2019s my dream club, but that stays between us [laughs]. Of course, Bayern is something very special and it\u2019s a lot of fun at the club\u201d<\/p>\n \ud83c\udfa5@SkySportDE<\/p>\n If you are looking for more Bayern Munich and German national team coverage, check out the latest episodes of Bavarian Podcast Works, which you can get on Acast<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>, Apple<\/a>, or any leading podcast distributor\u2026 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lennart Karl was born in Frammersbach, Bavaria. His entire career to date has taken place in Germany as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[57079,403,99],"class_list":["post-388607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-bayern-munich-transfer-news-and-rumors","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}