Bayern Munich is in the stomach with its five unvaccinated players, reports BILD. The German superpower has informed Joshua Kimmich, Serge Gnabry, Jamal Musiala, Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting and Michaël Cuisance on Saturday that they will not pay a salary during their mandatory quarantine. “The players have been asked not only to think about themselves, but also about the club,” it sounds.
Kimmich, Gnabry, Musiala, Choupo-Moting and Cuisance had to report to the training complex on Säbener Strasse on Thursday morning at 09:00 for a meeting with the club management. There, the five were told that Bayern is very concerned about the current situation. Management stressed that it is of course the players’ right not to be vaccinated, but it is also the club’s right not to pay a salary during quarantine.
Further measures were also discussed. For example, the board of Bayern is considering not allowing the unvaccinated players to train with the group of vaccinated players from now on. The five players were highly surprised at the announcements from the leadership. They had expected an attempt to convince them to get vaccinated, but were baffled by the withholding of pay and the threat of isolated training. The vaccinated part of the selection also supports the measures against the unvaccinated players BILD.
Kimmich, Gnabry, Musiala, Choupo-Moting and Cuisance have been quarantined for the past week after coming into contact with a person who tested positive. The five seemed to get out of isolation in time to participate in last Friday’s game against FC Augsburg (2-1 loss), but that was not the case for Kimmich. The midfielder had to be quarantined again on Friday due to a positive test in his environment. The other four players were on the scoresheet against Augsburg. Bayern’s measures have significant financial consequences: Kimmich earns 384,000 euros a week and has therefore already lost 768,000 euros in salary due to the quarantine.
Just like in the Netherlands, the number of corona infections is also increasing in Germany. In the state of Bavaria, the corona measures have been tightened up to a 2G regulation, which means that only people who have been vaccinated and people who have been cured from corona are still allowed to enter hotels and restaurants. The unvaccinated Bayern players were therefore not allowed access to the Hotel Maximilian’s in Augsburg this week, which was involved by the selection for last Friday’s away game.
Kimmich confirmed a few weeks ago that he has not been vaccinated against the corona virus. The midfielder said he wants to wait until more is clear about the long-term effects of the vaccines. The other four Bayern players have not explicitly spoken out about vaccination.