Bayer Leverkusen CEO Fernando Carro did not want center-back Jonathan Tah to make the jump to Bayern Munich last summer, but he knows that things were getting very close to a transfer.
Still, nothing happened and rumors indicated that Bayern Munich did not want to pay the requisite fee for Tah.
”I can’t say anything about other clubs. I don’t know if they failed because of €5 million. I can’t judge that. We haven’t actually had any binding offers in the sense that the supervisory board has agreed to them. I can’t judge how the decisions work at Bayern,” Carros told the Phrasenmäher podcast (as captured by @iMiaSanMia). “I was actually convinced that if Jonathan wanted to go there and Bayern wanted him, then it would work. That was our conviction from the beginning. The fact that it didn’t work out in the end was certainly not our fault, nor was it Jonathan’s.”
When asked whose fault it was that a deal did not happen, the interviewer implies that it could not have been Bayern Munich board member for sport Max Eberl because the executive wanted Tah.
Carro did not bite on the bait.
“You say that, I cannot judge that,” said Carro.