Bayern eye Çakır move

Bayern Munich’s reported interest in Uğurcan Çakır lands in a goalkeeper room that already has Manuel Neuer under contract through June 2026. (bundesliga.com) Neuer signed a one-year extension in February 2025, keeping the 39-year-old at Bayern for the 2025-26 season. Bayern also added 22-year-old Jonas Urbig from Cologne in January 2025, giving the club a younger in-house option. (bundesliga.com 1) (bundesliga.com 2) That makes any Çakır move less about an emergency signing and more about Bayern’s next succession plan at goalkeeper. Urbig has already logged first-team appearances in 2025-26, but Bayern has also kept Alexander Nübel tied to the club on a longer contract while he remains part of the wider picture. (bundesliga.com) (rfi.fr) Çakır, now 30, spent more than a decade in Trabzonspor’s system and served as club captain before leaving in September 2025. Trabzonspor said Galatasaray agreed to pay a guaranteed €33 million plus €3 million in conditional bonuses for the transfer. (trabzonspor.org.tr) That official September 2, 2025 sale is the central complication in the Bayern rumor: Çakır is no longer a Trabzonspor player. As of April 2026, multiple current profiles list him at Galatasaray, not Trabzonspor. (trabzonspor.org.tr) (transfermarkt.com) Trabzonspor’s own site still shows how central he was before that move. Club posts in December 2024 and May 2025 identified him as captain, and a May 2025 medical update named him among first-team regulars. (trabzonspor.org.tr 1) (trabzonspor.org.tr 2) (trabzonspor.org.tr 3) The reported €30 million figure would also sit close to the fee Galatasaray already committed less than a year ago. Trabzonspor disclosed €33 million guaranteed, while market trackers currently list Çakır’s estimated value at about €15 million. (trabzonspor.org.tr) (transfermarkt.com) Çakır’s résumé explains why Bayern-linked reports keep surfacing around him. He has been a Turkey international for years and built his reputation as one of the Süper Lig’s top domestic goalkeepers during his long run in Trabzon. (en.wikipedia.org) (trabzonspor.org.tr) For now, the cleanest read is that Bayern may be surveying the market, but the public record does not match a direct purchase from Trabzonspor in April 2026. Any real move would have to account for Çakır’s September 2025 transfer to Galatasaray and Bayern’s existing chain of Neuer, Urbig and Nübel. (trabzonspor.org.tr) (bundesliga.com 1) (bundesliga.com 2)