{"id":22174,"date":"2024-08-27T07:56:39","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T06:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/?p=22174"},"modified":"2024-08-27T07:56:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T06:56:40","slug":"lothar-matthaus-calls-out-bayern-munich-after-de-ligt-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/lothar-matthaus-calls-out-bayern-munich-after-de-ligt-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Lothar Matthaus calls out Bayern Munich after De Ligt sale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>German football legend Lothar Matthaus has called out <a href=\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/bayern-munich-pair-matthijs-and-noussair-fly-to-england-for-manchester-united-medicals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bayern Munich <\/a>for a transfer decision involving De Ligt. The former Bayern midfielder, who lost the 1999 Champions League final to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manutd.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Manchester United<\/a>, complained about the Red Devils signing Matthijs De Ligt.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lothar felt that Bayern should have held on to the Dutch centre half.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his column for Sky Germany, Lothar wrote: \u201cThe defence is and remains Bayern&#8217;s Achilles&#8217; heel. Matthijs de Ligt was sold, even though he was the most stable player over the last two years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe was the head of defence. Now Bayern are again looking for a successor to David Alaba.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor me, it is a disgrace that this leader is missing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German football legend Lothar Matthaus has called out Bayern Munich for a transfer decision involving De Ligt. The former Bayern midfielder, who lost the 1999 Champions League final to Manchester United, complained about the Red Devils signing Matthijs De Ligt.\u00a0 Lothar felt that Bayern should have held on to the Dutch centre half.&nbsp; In his column for Sky Germany, Lothar wrote: \u201cThe defence is and remains Bayern&#8217;s Achilles&#8217; heel. Matthijs de Ligt was sold, even though he was the most stable player over the last two years.&nbsp; \u201cHe was the head of defence. Now Bayern are again looking for a successor to David Alaba.&nbsp; \u201cFor me, it is a disgrace that this leader is missing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,13,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bundesliga","category-football","category-football-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lothar Matthaus calls out Bayern Munich after De Ligt sale - Matchplug Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Bayern Munich midfielder Lothar has called out Bayern for their transfer decision to sell De Ligt to Manchester United.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/lothar-matthaus-calls-out-bayern-munich-after-de-ligt-sale\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lothar Matthaus calls out Bayern Munich after De Ligt sale - 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