The Germany Olympics Team Stars Bayern Munich Should Be Monitoring

Germany entered the 2016 Summer Olympics football tournament with significant problems to overcome. The squad primed from the Under-21 national team was decimated in the weeks and months beforehand.

Stars like Joshua Kimmich, Leroy Sane, Julian Weigl and Jonathan Tah earned surprise nominations to the senior national team and went to Euro 2016, ruling them out of any possible participation in a second summer tournament.

Others spent the latter stages of the summer preparing for the season with their respective clubs: Per TZ (in German), Mahmoud Dahoud and Mitchell Weiser stayed at home as they were needed for key tournament qualification matches, while Kevin Volland and Timo Werner remained in Germany due to their having just signed contracts with new clubs.

Making matters worse, Maximilian Arnold was ruled out due to an appendectomy, and captain Leon Goretzka lasted just half an hour in the group-stage opener before a shoulder injury ended his Olympics. 

Germany didn’t send the over-23 superstars that some other countries did. Brazil have Neymar at the competition; Germany have Sven and Lars Bender and Nils Petersen.

Yet, after a rough start that included draws with Mexico and South Korea, Germany have had an excellent Olympics campaign. And predictably, media attention has been drawn towards Bayern Munich as potential suitors for some of the Mannschaft’s stand-out performers.

Transfer guru Gianluca Di Marzio reported on his website (h/t translator David Amoyal) on Thursday that Bayern have been monitoring the situation of Germany Olympics starlet and Hoffenheim man Jeremy Toljan.

Below, B/R takes a look at how Toljan would fit into the team and investigates several other Germany Olympics talents the Bavarians should consider in the immediate or long-term future.

DiMarzio: #FCBayern are interested in Hoffenheim’s full-back Jeremy Toljan who’s currently at the #Olympics. pic.twitter.com/RUGIISAouP

— Home Bayern (@HomeBayern__) August 18, 2016

Jeremy Toljan (Right-back, Hoffenheim)

By now, there can be no question that Bayern are in the market for a new right-back. The German giants are well aware of the …

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