The forward says RB Leipzig remain in the frame for next season, but says only one club in Germany is a long-term option <\/p>\n
Timo Werner appeared to drop the biggest hint yet that he wants a move to Bayern Munich next season.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0RB Leipzig forward was not able to make much of an impact as the two sides faced off on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Franck Ribery scored the game’s only goal as Bayern took a 1-0 win in the midweek contest to close the gap on league leaders Borussia Dortmund to just six points and to open up a five-point lead on fourth-placed Leipzig.\u00a0<\/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 Reports have surfaced in recent days that Werner is pushing for a move to Bayern, with German outlet Bild\u00a0<\/em>having claimed that the German giants now view the 22-year-old as a realistic option having seen his development over the last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n And Werner has now dropped a rather sizable hint that he sees Bayern as potential landing spot.\u00a0<\/p>\n “I\u2019ve had a nice two and a half years at Leipzig, so they are in the picture [for next season],” he told Sky Sports Germany<\/em>.<\/p>\n “There are other clubs in the picture. If you play in Germany and want to stay in Germany, there is only one club in question.\u201d<\/p>\n Werner has notched 10 goals and two assists in the Bundesliga in this season, matching the goal total of Bayern’s leading scorer Robert Lewandowski.<\/p>\n Bayern boss Niko Kovac also hailed the forward’s skills ahead of their meeting on Wednesday, while attempting to downplay talk of a move being in the works.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cTimo Werner is a great player with great skills,\u201d Kovac told Kicker<\/em>. \u201cWhat happens in the winter or next summer, we\u2019ll leave that alone.\u201d<\/p>\n Werner’s deal with Leipzig runs through the 2020 season, leaving him primed to either sign a new deal or make a move either during the winter window or next summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n Leipzig will close out the first half of their season on Saturday with a clash against Werder Bremen ahead of the winter break.<\/p>\n The club will then be out of action until January 19, when they will take on league leaders Borussia Dortmund.\u00a0<\/p>\n Bayern also have one fixture remaining in 2018 as they take on\u00a0Eintracht Frankfurt as part of Saturday’s slate of games.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The forward says RB Leipzig remain in the frame for next season, but says only one club in Germany is a long-term option Timo Werner appeared to drop the biggest hint yet that he wants a move to Bayern Munich next season. The\u00a0RB Leipzig forward was not able to make much of an impact as…<\/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-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","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=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n