Bayern land Nathaniel Brown, and suddenly everyone is talking about Davies again
Three million euros. That is what Eintracht Frankfurt paid Nuremberg for Nathaniel Brown back in January 2024. Eighteen months on, the left-back is worth roughly 55 million with bonuses, and Bayern Munich are the ones footing the bill. He passed his medical in the city on Thursday, and a five-year contract is sitting there ready to sign. Not a bad afternoon’s work for Frankfurt’s accountants.
Brown is 23, and he left the World Cup with his stock higher than when he arrived, even after Germany went out on penalties to Paraguay. He was a menace going forward. Bayern took note. So did a few others.
Bild’s Christian Falk lays out the reasoning plainly, and it is not the one you might expect. This is no Davies replacement. “Bayern do not want Nathaniel Brown as a Davies replacement, but because they see him as one of the Bundesliga’s top young talents for the future. They had to move now to stop a Premier League club from swooping in for the full-back.” Arsenal and Chelsea had both been circling. Bayern simply got there first.
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The contract runs to 2030. The knee is the question
So where does all this leave Alphonso Davies? Still at the Allianz Arena, most likely, with a deal that does not run out until 2030. “I think he will stay at Bayern Munich, and the club has no problem with that. The issue has never been Davies’ ability, it’s been his injury record,” Falk says. And that is the catch. An ACL tear in March 2025 cost him 63 games for club and country. People started asking questions.
Here is the part that makes a sale unnecessary. Both men can cover more than one position, Brown even more so, which means Bayern can line them up together instead of choosing. “If there is no obvious reason to sell Davies, then if a very good offer came in, FC Bayern would consider it,” Falk added. Read that however you want. Davies is not being pushed towards the exit, but nobody inside the club is calling him untouchable either.
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