Niko Kovac, the new man in charge at the Allianz Arena, has reiterated that the Colombian playmaker will be honouring a two-year loan agreement <\/p>\n
Bayern Munich have reiterated that they have no intention of cutting a two-year loan for James Rodriguez short and allowing him to return to Real Madrid.<\/p>\n
The Blancos deemed the Colombia international to be surplus to requirements in the summer of 2017 as they sanctioned a switch to Germany which includes a purchase option in 2019.<\/p>\n
They have seen the 27-year-old flourish at the Allianz Arena, sparking talk that those at the Santiago Bernabeu are keen to bring him back to Spain.<\/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 Bayern, though, are committed to an initial agreement, which could see them sign the South American for \u20ac42 million (\u00a338m\/$49m) next summer, and have made it clear that Real would be wasting their time in any effort to renegotiate.<\/p>\n Niko Kovac, the new man in charge of the Bundesliga champions, told reporters when asked again about James\u2019 future: \u201cI only know that we have a loan deal which is valid.<\/p>\n \u201cIt will only end if we take the option and he stays permanent – or it won’t end at all. So at the moment it looks like he’ll stay.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are always many rumours in the media.\u201d<\/p>\n James made a relatively slow start to his debut campaign at Bayern, as he adjusted to new surroundings.<\/p>\n He was, however, to play his way into form and ended the season with eight goals and 13 assists across Bundesliga and Champions League competition.<\/p>\n More of the same is expected in 2018-19, with James set to return to domestic action on the back of a frustrating World Cup which saw his tournament ended by injury.<\/p>\n He has regularly stated his happiness in Germany and told reporters prior to heading out to Russia with his country that it was his preference to remain with Bayern.<\/p>\n “It’s a good league here in Germany, the stadiums are full. I came here with a different perception,” said James.<\/p>\n “I’m fine, I hope I stay here. I feel very good.”<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Niko Kovac, the new man in charge at the Allianz Arena, has reiterated that the Colombian playmaker will be honouring a two-year loan agreement Bayern Munich have reiterated that they have no intention of cutting a two-year loan for James Rodriguez short and allowing him to return to Real Madrid. The Blancos deemed the Colombia…<\/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-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","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=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n