The 'superstar' set for Musiala reunion - how Olise fits in at Bayern

One of nan bigger transfers of nan summertime has seen an Olympian from London subordinate a erstwhile Burnley manager.

Or, successful different words, Vincent Kompany's Bayern Munich person signed Crystal Palace winger Michael Olise for £50m (60m euros).

The 22-year-old becomes Bayern's 4th astir costly signing ever aft £86.4m England skipper Harry Kane, France full-back Lucas Hernandez and Netherlands centre-back Matthijs de Ligt.

Olise will subordinate up pinch his caller nine later this summer, because he is presently featuring successful nan Paris Olympics for Thierry Henry's France team.

Olise could play connected nan correct helping for Bayern Munich, arsenic he did for Crystal Palace.

That would put him successful nan mould of modern Bayern awesome Arjen Robben, who besides loved to trim successful to sprout connected his near foot.

"He is truthful graceful," erstwhile West Ham and Scotland midfielder Don Hutchison told BBC Radio 5 Live precocious past season.

Ex-England and Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher called him a "superstar".

Olise deed 10 goals past play for Crystal Palace, contempt him missing complete half nan run pinch 2 superior hamstring injuries. Only Kane - who scored 44 goals - and Jamal Musiala, pinch 12, scored much for Bayern.

Last play Musiala, Leroy Sane, Mathys Tel, Kingsley Coman, Serge Gnabry and Bryan Zaragoza, a January signing from Granada, each spent clip connected nan Bayern wings.

But they grounded to triumph nan Bundesliga title for nan first clip successful complete a decade, truthful reinforcements were needed.

Sane, Kane and Olise could beryllium nan beforehand 3 for Kompany, who replaced Thomas Tuchel aft they mislaid nan title to Bayer Leverkusen.

Olise played 90 times for Crystal Palace, pinch 16 goals and 25 assists successful his 3 years astatine nan club, pursuing an £8m move from Reading.

Last play was nan first clip he deed double fig for goals, pinch his champion shape coming astatine nan extremity of nan run nether Oliver Glasner.

But 2022-23 was arguably his champion play arsenic he was named Palace's Players' Player of nan Year and became their first subordinate to scope 10 assists aliases much successful a Premier League campaign.

Olise was calved and raised successful London but has chosen to correspond France astatine world level, done his mother.

He remains eligible to play for England, contempt being portion of nan French Under-23 squad astatine nan Olympic Games - but location is nary logic to deliberation he would determine to alteration now having been pinch France since under-19 level.

"We cognize that he has plentifulness of possibilities but he wants to play for France," said French Olympics leader Henry.

"You person to item his desire to show that he wants to play for nan French team."

Olise was near retired of France's Euro 2024 squad and has yet to triumph a elder headdress for Les Bleus.

England leader Gareth Southgate was subsequently asked astir Olise erstwhile naming his ain provisional squad for nan Euros.

He said: "He would person to person a transportation of association. That process would return rather a while.

"He is evidently a very bully player. He is simply a subordinate we should person an liking successful because he is simply a very bully subordinate but location is nary measurement you could do each of that successful clip for nan Euros."

Henry added: "If he was English, he would person already near to play for England. He could person made nan different prime and played nan Euros pinch nan England team, for illustration his team-mate Eberechi Eze astatine Crystal Palace, but he wants to play for France, knowing that he wouldn't play successful nan Euros."

Olise remains eligible for Nigeria and Algeria too.

Olise spent clip pinch nan Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester City younker set-ups earlier joining Reading - but his clip astatine Chelsea was by acold nan longest, 7 years earlier leaving aged 14.

In different life Olise could person been Chelsea and England team-mates pinch Musiala, who was successful nan Blues' academy pinch him. Bayern's Musiala played for England up to under-21 level but is now a elder Germany international.

Olise's Chelsea exit was "mutual" according to Sean Conlan, who worked pinch nan subordinate arsenic a child, astatine a institution called We Make Footballers.

"He was truthful flimsy arsenic a youngster, he needed crippled intelligence," Conlon told BBC Sport successful 2022. "Add that to nan characteristic from his travel - it makes him nan afloat package.

"He tin spell to nan very, very top. Everybody astatine Chelsea is truthful pleased pinch his success."

But his Chelsea exit successful 2016 was not nan extremity of his communicative pinch nan club.

They were willing successful him this summertime too, on pinch Newcastle, but he chose to move to Bayern.

A twelvemonth agone they thought they had him for £35m, activating his ain merchandise clause, but he signed a caller woody to enactment astatine Selhurst Park instead.

And successful 2021 they were being linked pinch a move to motion him from Reading on pinch galore different apical teams - including Bayern.

Chelsea do person an Olise though, Michael's relative Richard - who is simply a 19-year-old defender pinch a headdress for England U18s.