{"id":229689,"date":"2026-02-21T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T09:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/arsenal-and-liverpool-set-to-lock-horns-for-bayern-munich-youngster-lennart-karl\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T09:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T09:00:22","slug":"arsenal-and-liverpool-set-to-lock-horns-for-bayern-munich-youngster-lennart-karl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/arsenal-and-liverpool-set-to-lock-horns-for-bayern-munich-youngster-lennart-karl\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal and Liverpool set to lock horns for Bayern Munich youngster Lennart Karl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/topics\/liverpool\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"Liverpool news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liverpool<\/a> are expected to be in the <a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/tag\/transfer-rumours\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Transfer rumours\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transfer<\/a> market for a winger this summer to play on the right side of the offensive third as <a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/tag\/mohamed-salah\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"37\" title=\"mohamed salah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mohamed Salah<\/a>\u2019s contract continues to wind down with the Egyptian set to leave Anfield sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n<p>A player of Salah\u2019s calibre will need a capable enough replacement and in a transfer market that has very few right wingers available for a reasonable price, the Reds seem to have identified an ideal option heading into the off-season.<\/p>\n<div class=\"hypnl6999742c6c39b\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rememore.com\/hair-transplant-in-turkey#utm_source=footbal-talk&amp;utm_id=footbal-talk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-225247\" src=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FootballTalk_New_Chapter-rememore.png\" alt=\"Rememore new hair\" width=\"400\" height=\"333\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/news\/bayern-munich-planning-double-deal-leave-liverpool-arsenal-empty-handed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Graeme Bailey has reported<\/a> that Liverpool are looking to sign Bayern Munich prodigy Lennart Karl, a player who has also established himself on <a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/topics\/arsenal\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Arsenal News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arsenal<\/a>\u2019s radar ahead of the transfer window after his solid breakthrough year with the Germans.<\/p>\n<h2>Liverpool would be favourites for Karl<\/h2>\n<p>Lennart Karl would be a terrific addition to the <a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/tag\/premier-league\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"21\" title=\"Premier League\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Premier League<\/a>. At the age of just 17, he has excellent close control, game intelligence, passing attributes and is also a great finisher in the final third.<\/p>\n<p>Vincent Kompany, Bayern Munich\u2019s coach, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-in\/lists\/really-dangerous-lennart-karl-has-something-you-can-t-teach-as-vincent-kompany-and-co-sing-17-year-old-s-praises-after-another-record-breaking-champions-league-display\/blt3fb2adbab22a1ec3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">described the teenager as a \u2018dangerous\u2019 player<\/a> and with regular game time already coming his way at the Allianz Arena, Karl is very much the cream of the crop amongst Europe\u2019s forwards this season.<\/p>\n<p>Between Arsenal and Liverpool, the Reds are expected to be favourites for his signing simply because he will get to play more often at Anfield once Mohamed Salah departs the club, potentially in 2027 when his contract expires.<\/p>\n<p>If he was to join Arsenal, he would face stern competition from the 26-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/tag\/bukayo-saka\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"34\" title=\"Bukayo Saka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bukayo Saka<\/a>, who has recently renewed his contract at the Emirates Stadium until 2031, and Martin Odegaard, who is the team\u2019s captain.<\/p>\n<p>Karl\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transfermarkt.com\/lennart-karl\/leistungsdaten\/spieler\/1075147\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">valuation on Transfermarkt stands at \u00a353 million<\/a> and he has a contract with Bayern until June 2028. It will be interesting to see what his asking price would be should the interested parties look to materialise their desire to sign him.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--mvp-post-tags--><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--posts-nav-link--><\/p>\n<div class=\"mvp-org-wrap\" itemprop=\"publisher\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Organization\">\n<div class=\"mvp-org-logo\" itemprop=\"logo\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/new-logo.png\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/new-logo.png\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><!--mvp-org-logo--><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Football Talk | Premier League News\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><!--mvp-org-wrap-->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/229199\/arsenal-and-liverpool-set-to-lock-horns-for-bayern-munich-youngster-lennart-karl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool are expected to be in the transfer market for a winger this summer to play on the right side of the offensive third as Mohamed Salah\u2019s contract continues to wind down with the Egyptian set to leave Anfield sooner rather than later. A player of Salah\u2019s calibre will need a capable enough replacement and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6807],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-229689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leagues-cups"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}