ESPN FC’s Kay Murray, Steve Nicol, Craig Burley and Jan Aage Fjortoft react to comments from Harry Kane about playing with 17-year-old Lennart Karl. The panel also discusses Dayot Upamecano’s future with Bayern Munich.
0:00 Harry Kane interview
1:26 Rating Karl’s performance
5:51 Dayot Upamecano’s future
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Lennart Karl is fantastic talent but can’t bench a healthy Musiala
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Congratulations to Bayern for winning the 2025/2026 Bundesliga 🎉🎉🎉
3:48 (how long it took for Yamal to be brought up lmao)
There are always comparing a player with Yamal
And Barca didn’t play today😂😂😂
My brain can only see the wedding singer in the movie Old School when I see this guy
Kane speaks English more clearly after living in Germany.
lol love Lennart, but in no world is he benching musiala😂
Musiala is just different guys dont forget what he already did and I love lenny too but chill
Nope he is not even Musiala's level, let alone Wirtz, Woltermade or Kai Harvetz who are superior than Musiala. He is only 17 years old. He got lots to learn and hopefully he gets called up to the 2030 world cup, when he becomes a good player.
0:02 he barely had started half of those games, he has played 947 minutes which is around 10.5 games
Lennart Karl > Lamine Yamal.
Lennart Karl is very unfortunate to have
130M Olise and 140M Musiala playing on his positions.
Even though he is already very dangerous, he cant start infront of any of these two players.
The tragic part is that he needs game time to fully develop and potentially eclipse one of the other two, but he already needs to be that good to get the necessary game time to get there in the first place.
Musiala and Olise are 22 and 23, so they are young.
Karl Olise and Musiala are each too good to not be an undisputed starter, meaning one of them needs to eventually leave Bayern in the near future.
In favor of not wasting any time of his development Karl should be the one to leave Bayern this winter or next summer. He wont though.
10:27
Gotta be picking Bade and Lacroix over Konate at this point
He should be appointed to Germany's senior national team.
I don’t see why they can’t just be on the same team
Typical Espn fc crew …Upa has been very consistent over the years ,he made mistakes in very important games but he´s been one of the best defenders in europe for a few years now …There´s a reason why Deschamps and every bayern coach picked him to play most games
who is Musiala again? He got any flow this season? No. So it must be Lenni to go ahead and play!
Watch out for his younger brother Vincent!
ESPN talk like they really care about Bayern success, all they wanna see is Bayern downfall.
Karl is amazing talent but Musiala is MAGIC 🥶 so you guys don’t have to care about us, we will be fine🥶
Musiala or karl can play in any wing . No worry about bayern
People forgot how good Jamal is.
The way Kompany handles our young Lennart is perfect, not going overboard with good performances, not pounding on him when he has an off day. Just let them do their thing. But if Karl continues like this he should be nominated for the national team WAAAY before that fraud Sane.
Musiala is a Top Earner + Number 10, he will always play when fit.
Upamecano was also good last season so this isn’t just last season he’s been doing this. He seem to have taken his game to a higher level in these last two seasons under Kompany
He needs to be called in the March window next year for the German NT
They don‘t want to extend Goretzka because he‘s not good enough
Terrible misinformation by a so-called “expert”:
Kimmich didn’t receive a signing fee as it was confirmed by Eberl and Kimmich himself.
I think Karl is a bigger talent, but Musiala got the experience and are more the finished article.
Jamal is beyond Karl don't argue
yamal was also like this back then, but the pr karl get isn't as big as yamal lmao. which is good ig. karl got that german discipline. he's got a long future to come.
Bayern is such a fantastic institution. Now with Davies and musiala back they look like they were set up by a teenager on FIFA
This team we currently have is UCL champion material 💪💪💪
Calling Draxler a Wunderkind kinda hurts.
He was a Wundertoddler at best … the last Wunderkinder before Wirtz and Musiala were Götze and Deisler and we all know how that played out … although Götze had a wonderful career and is still a great player.
Kimmich didn't ask for or get a signing fee
bayern can play with Musiala and Kane. Neuer – Laimer – Tah – Davies – Kimmich – Pavlovic – Musiala – Diaz – Olise – Kane – Karl
9:07 Why does he mention the Mainz game when Upamecano was not even on the pitch?
Please do your research before you critic a player.
with all these big superstars? he did not think alike. Karl had the best touch from all players Arsenal and Bayern on that day.
I hate the question in the title.
Musiala was cancer the last two seasons, killing us when he started at cam. Team couldn’t attack and create when he was there. Muller carried the offense and Musiala was great on the wing. Gnabry is the best cam followed by Karl and then Musiala. However, I do think I’d start Musiala on wing over Diaz or Olise.
He's not gonna bench Musiala but he'll definitely make life easier for both Musiala and Olise. Now they don’t have to play every week risking injuries. Kompany can rest either of them and play Karl instead. He can start a lot of Bundesliga games and rotate with them in champions league. That's the best case scenario for a 17 year old. We don’t wanna do what Barca did with Pedri and Gavi.
îf germany doesnt nominate him and El Mala for the world cup its getting riots xD
also remember the 19 year old el mala is also crazy as hes already at 9 scorer at the 1. FC Köln which is crazy xD
these are the two new german superstars
Kompany has made every player, who is in the squad stronger! We dont need upamecano. If he wants to leave, let him go! Dont even buy Schotterbeck. Just buy any young cb with potential and kompany will turn him into a 60m defender like. Bye upa!
Atleast one thing is for good. Gnabry is gonna be on the bench for sure now that we have options who are better. Gnabry has had a good season and resurgence but that consistency will always be missing from him. Cannot rely on him to produce and bail us out in situations. I feel we will go with Olise – Musiala – Diaz with Karl getting occasional starts and minutes def from the bench
Can the coach not start and play both at the same time
Jamal is on another level
Nice to see they are calling him Lenny 😂 Lenny G shout out @hokagepouya
Karl will bench Jamal
Note this one 😊
Karl is better finisher than Jamal.