According to the Bayern Insider podcast, Bayern Munich explored a move for Raheem Sterling as an emergency option after their proposed loan for Nicolas Jackson was nearly derailed by injury concerns at Chelsea.
Journalist Tobias Altschäffl added: “Sterling had with Jackson something in common: he is at Chelsea also on the sidelines, was partly in individual training or training only with the second team.”
Sterling, still only 30, was loaned to Arsenal for the 2024/25 season, a deal that was meant to revive his career but instead was seen as a failure.
He made 28 appearances, only seven of them league starts, and scored just once in the Carabao Cup against Bolton. In the Premier League he produced no goals and just two assists, totalling fewer than 500 minutes on the pitch.
Supporters branded the move one of the worst of the season across the league.
Arsenal, understandably, declined to pursue a permanent deal, and Sterling returned to Chelsea, where his situation has since worsened.
Under Enzo Maresca he has been frozen out entirely, confined to the “bomb squad” of unwanted players training away from the first team.
Despite enquiries from clubs in Italy, Turkey, Germany and the Premier League, Sterling declined to leave London, while Chelsea remain unwilling to negotiate a contract settlement on his £325,000-a-week deal.
Bild report that Bayern sounded him out but that Sterling himself “could not imagine” a move. Once a mainstay for England and a star at Manchester City, Sterling now finds himself exiled at Chelsea and with his career at a crossroads.