The 24-year-old saw no reason to leave PSG in the summer after a successful season – but he would not rule out a return to the Bundesliga <\/p>\n
Julian Draxler has denied holding talks with Bayern Munich and says he is happy with life at Paris Saint-Germain.<\/p>\n
The Germany international made 30 appearances in Ligue 1 last season but only 19 as a starter, as Neymar, Kylian Mbappe or Edinson Cavani regularly featured for\u00a0the first team.<\/p>\n
It has been suggested Draxler,\u00a024, could be targeted by Bayern next year, who will likely be looking to replace veteran wingers Franck Ribery and Arjen Robben at the end of the season.<\/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 Draxler, though, insists now is not the time for such talk.<\/p>\n “Bayern are by far the most successful club in Germany. Everything else is speculation,” he told Sport1<\/em>. “I’ve never had contact with an official from Bayern.”<\/p>\n Asked how he would react if an offer was made, Draxler replied:\u00a0“I would neither categorically say no, nor would I just drop everything. But again, the question is not something to bring up now.”<\/p>\n Draxler, who joined from Wolfsburg in January 2017, believes he has no reason to leave PSG given he was heavily involved in their Ligue 1, Coupe de la Ligue and Coupe de France triumphs last term.<\/p>\n “I saw no reason to flee,” he said.<\/p>\n “Competition is high, especially in my position, with Mbappe and Neymar playing there, currently the two best players in the world \u2013\u00a0or at least the ones that I think will be in the future.<\/p>\n “The signs haven’t changed. I played 47, 48 games last season and am convinced I will play them this season as well. I like the club and the city. I feel comfortable there, and that’s why there was no reason for me to look for an opportunity [to leave].”<\/p>\n There were also rumours Draxler could have returned to Schalke this year, but he says that was never a possibility.<\/p>\n “Schalke will be with me all my life, that’s clear, but a return was not a topic this summer,” he added.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 24-year-old saw no reason to leave PSG in the summer after a successful season – but he would not rule out a return to the Bundesliga Julian Draxler has denied holding talks with Bayern Munich and says he is happy with life at Paris Saint-Germain. The Germany international made 30 appearances in Ligue 1…<\/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-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","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=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n