{"id":670,"date":"2019-03-01T10:31:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T10:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/2019\/03\/01\/boateng-rules-out-january-exit-from-bayern\/"},"modified":"2019-03-01T10:31:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T10:31:30","slug":"boateng-rules-out-january-exit-from-bayern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=670","title":{"rendered":"Boateng rules out January exit from Bayern"},"content":{"rendered":"

The centre-back will not entertain the thought of leaving the Allianz Arena this winter <\/p>\n

Jerome Boateng has ruled out the possibility of a move away from Bayern Munich during the January transfer window.<\/p>\n

The centre-back has been in and out of the team this season as he competes for a starting berth with Mats Hummels and Niklas Sule, making 11 starts from 17 potential Bundesliga games.<\/p>\n

And there is speculation that Atletico Madrid defender Lucas Hernandez – who can operate as a left-back or a centre-back – could be joining the club, potentially limiting the 30-year-old’s game-time further.<\/p>\n

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However, Boateng refused to entertain the prospect of a winter switch away from the reigning Bundesliga champions.<\/p>\n

“A change this winter is out of the question for me,” Boateng said at a training camp in Doha.<\/p>\n

The Germany international’s performances have not been up to his usual standards, however, as Bayern made a slow start in the league while Borussia Dortmund surged to the top of the table.<\/p>\n

Boateng featured in a damaging defeat to Hertha Berlin, which sparked a run of poor form that saw Bayern win just two of their next six league fixtures, failing to keep a clean sheet in that period.<\/p>\n

In fact, Bayern kept just two clean sheets in their opening 13 league games, of which Boateng played nine.<\/p>\n

“It was a difficult year for me,” he admitted.<\/p>\n

“I fell short of my expectations and I’m not happy with that.”<\/p>\n

But the defender appears determined to rectify those problems at Bayern rather than jumping ship to another club.<\/p>\n

And the club’s form as a whole is steadily improving, rising up the table to second place, with a five-game winning run\u00a0– including four successive clean sheets – in the Bundesliga, putting pressure on Dortmund and cutting the deficit, although Lucien Favre’s side still maintain a six-point gap at the top.<\/p>\n

Bayern return to domestic action on January 18, playing an away fixture against Hoffenheim – one of six domestic games before their mouthwatering Champions League round of 16 first-leg clash against Liverpool at Anfield on February 19.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The centre-back will not entertain the thought of leaving the Allianz Arena this winter Jerome Boateng has ruled out the possibility of a move away from Bayern Munich during the January transfer window. The centre-back has been in and out of the team this season as he competes for a starting berth with Mats Hummels…<\/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-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","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=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}