Bayern Munich announced that they would only go for loan deals right around the time they had secured the transfer of Luis Díaz from Liverpool. It all but finished off any chance that Bayern would sign anyone to fill in for the team, and a majority of those on the board thought it was a terrible idea as reported by Tz trio Manuel Bonke, Philipp Kessler, and Hanna Raif via twitter account @iMiaSanMia:
The ‘loan only’ policy was discussed quite controversially at last week’s supervisory board regular meeting. Not everyone on the board was in full agreement with the strict austerity measures pursued by President Herbert Hainer and the two supervisory board members, Uli Hoeneß and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.
It appears that the three people who pushed for this policy did not consider the implications of having fewer replacements for the swath of departures. Throw in a couple of players yet to make their comebacks from long-term injuries and you have a team that is severely hampered.
Should Bayern end up underperforming because of the lack of options from the player pool, then the blame pretty much lies on the door of the higher-ups who think that being in the green is better than sporting success. They do realize that sporting success sometimes comes with windfall, right? Apparently, they don’t.