Karl-Heinz Rummenigge does not know what the future holds for the veteran French winger, although he does intend to hold talks with the player <\/p>\n
Bayern Munich CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge is refusing to offer any guarantees over the future of Franck Ribery.<\/p>\n
The 35-year-old winger’s contract expires at the end of the season and it is unclear whether he will be offered an extension.<\/p>\n
Ribery has enjoyed huge success since joining the club from Marseille in 2007, most notably inspiring them to a treble of Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal and Champions League wins in 2012-13, but injury problems have restricted his impact in recent seasons.<\/p>\n
Article continues below<\/span> <\/p>\n Juve on alert: Exiled Icardi may have already played his final game for Inter Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea & Pedro impress in Spurs win Magnificent Mane takes centre stage as league leaders Liverpool put on a five-star show Lukaku sends reminder that his Man Utd career is far from over <\/p>\n Rummenigge plans to hold talks with the player but admits he is unsure what the outcome will be.<\/p>\n “We’ve had some amazing years thanks to him. I have huge respect for Franck,” he told Eurosport<\/em>.<\/p>\n “You have to be open and honest. At some point, we’ll have a conversation with him and his agent and then make a joint decision. I can’t predict what that will be.”<\/p>\n Ribery came off the bench in Friday’s 3-2 win at Augsburg for his 16th Bundesliga appearance of the campaign.<\/p>\n Veteran team-mate Arjen Robben, also 35, has already confirmed this season will be his last at Bayern.<\/p>\n Sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic appeared to suggest back in December that Ribery would be heading the same way as Robben.<\/p>\n He told Sport Bild<\/em> when asked about Ribery and plans for Bayern in 2019: \u201cThe president talked about it [the possibility of leaving], and I think it will be like that. It’s a year of changes.\u201d<\/p>\n That statement may end up applying to others and not Ribery, with there still a chance that his association with his current club will be extended.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Karl-Heinz Rummenigge does not know what the future holds for the veteran French winger, although he does intend to hold talks with the player Bayern Munich CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge is refusing to offer any guarantees over the future of Franck Ribery. The 35-year-old winger’s contract expires at the end of the season and it is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n