Bayern Munich are reportedly monitoring Kai Havertz's situation at Arsenal, English journalist Charles Watts said, adding that “there's interest there, nothing more than that.” The approach is currently informal: the report says Bayern's interest has not yet taken concrete form.
That caution matters because Havertz is, on paper, a secure asset at Arsenal. His contract runs until 2028, and the north London club would likely demand at least the €75 million they paid Chelsea in 2023 if they were to sell. Arsenal, the report added, would only consider a departure if the right offer arrived.
Havertz's market value has been complicated by fitness troubles. He has been hampered by injuries over the past 18 months and is currently sidelined with a muscle injury picked up in Arsenal's 1-0 win over Newcastle last weekend. The same reporting said that the injury is not expected to threaten Havertz's place in Julian Nagelsmann's World Cup plans.
Those figures — a long contract to 2028, the €75 million price tag from 2023 and a spell of 18 months disrupted by injury — give context to why Bayern have not moved from interest to offer. Bayern are also said to be focusing more urgently on signing a new winger, which changes the calculus of whether they press to turn monitoring into a transfer.
That winger search is being treated as more immediate. Newcastle United's Anthony Gordon is reported to be Bayern's top target as the club looks to refresh its wide options, and one account said two additional players sit on an internal shortlist. The broader picture, as presented in the reporting, is a club weighing several attacking solutions rather than homing in on one midfield forward.
Off the pitch there is movement, too. Kathleen Krüger, who served as team manager at Säbener Straße from 2012 to 2024, is set to join Hamburger SV after Bayern gave her the green light to move, a report said on Thursday. Krüger's departure removes a long-serving figure from Bayern's internal structure at a moment when recruitment priorities are shifting.
The tension in this story is simple: Bayern look interested in Havertz but are juggling a more urgent need on the wing and ongoing internal changes. That makes a bid for a player Arsenal spent €75 million on last year unlikely to be immediate, even though Arsenal would field an approach for the right money.
Put plainly, Bayern's monitoring of Havertz is real but passive. The club's more pressing search for wide attackers — with Anthony Gordon the top name mentioned — and the organisational move that will send Kathleen Krüger to Hamburger SV suggest Bayern will only turn passive interest into action if their primary plans falter or an exceptional offer forces a rethink. For Havertz, who is under contract until 2028 and carrying recent injury baggage, the next step is therefore more likely to be fitness and form than an imminent transfer.
