Javi Martínez is on his way to the Bayern Munich exit. The Spaniard still has an ongoing contract until the middle of next year der Rekordmeister, but stands according to BILD about to return to Athletic Club. General director Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has already said goodbye to the routine by means of a post on social media.

Martínez has been active in southern Germany for the past eight years. Bayern took him over from Athletic for forty million euros in the summer of 2012 and the defensive midfielder, who can also play centrally in the back, came in at the time as the most expensive purchase in club history. Martínez has now been surpassed in that area by Corentin Tolisso, Leroy Sané and Lucas Hernández.

The 32-year-old Spaniard played a total of 238 games for the Bavarian superpower and won eight national titles and twice the Champions League in his eight years at the club. In the past season, he was less in the plans for a count stopped at sixteen appearances in the Bundesliga. Martínez did not come in the lines last Friday during Bayern’s 8-0 season opener against Schalke 04.

According to reports from his native country, the routine has been personally with Athletic for some time. Martínez had played for the club from the Basque Country for six years in the past and during that period he played 250 times on behalf of los Leones. With the transfer of the controller, who was also on the list at Real Sociedad, according to BILD an amount of around ten million euros. After Thiago Alcántara left for Liverpool, Martínez is the second Spaniard to leave Munich in recent days.