Bayern Munich chief aims dig at Liverpool over Michael Olise transfer link

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Published March 26, 2026 8:26pm Updated March 26, 2026 8:27pm Michael Olise is on Liverpool’s shortlist of candidates to replace Mohamed Salah (Getty) Bayern Munich’s honorary president Uli Hoeness has aimed a dig at Liverpool after they were linked with a move for Michael Olise. Liverpool are in the market to replace Mohamed Salah this summer and reports this week have claimed that Olise is at the top of the Premier League club’s shortlist.

And Hoeness insists Bayern have no intention of allowing the 24-year-old to join Liverpool in the summer transfer window. ‘If that’s true… I don’t believe it is, but Liverpool spent 500 million this year and are having a very bad season. Mohamed Salah will leave Liverpool at the end of the season (Action Images via Reuters) ‘We play this game for our fans.

We have 430,000 members, we have many millions of fans around the world, and it does them little good if we have 200 million in the bank and play worse football every Saturday because of it.’ Your football fix Metro's Head of Sport James Goldman delivers punchy analysis, transfer talk and his take on the week's biggest stories direct to your inbox every week. Speaking earlier this week, Bayern’s sporting director Max Eberl also dismissed the prospect of Olise leaving the club at the end of the season. ‘Michael has a contract with us until 2029, without a release clause – we’re relaxed,’ Eberl told Sport Bild.