{"id":1664,"date":"2026-07-30T17:07:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=1664"},"modified":"2026-07-30T17:07:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:07:30","slug":"bayern-munich-open-to-loaning-out-injury-prone-defender-hiroki-ito-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=1664","title":{"rendered":"Bayern Munich open to loaning out injury-prone defender Hiroki Ito (27)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/assets\/team-japan-airport-arrival-fifa-world-cup-2026-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Bayern Munich open to loaning out injury-prone defender Hiroki Ito (27)\" title=\"Bayern Munich open to loaning out injury-prone defender Hiroki Ito (27)\" \/><\/div><p><\/p>\n<div id=\"penci-post-entry-inner\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"penci-post-countview-number-check\" style=\"display:none\">1<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The local <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de\/sport\/fcbayern\/das-speed-duell-holt-sich-brown-den-stammplatz-von-davies-art-1147857\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>M\u00fcnchener Abendzeitung<\/strong><\/a> reports that Bayern Munich defender Hiroki Ito is likely to be loaned out this season. Presumably, the German record champions do not wish to sell the player they once invested \u20ac23.5m in. The fact that Ito has spent most of his two Bayern seasons on the sidelines has seen his estimated market value decline from \u20ac30m to \u20ac18m over the last 20 months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Ito remains under contract with Bayern until the end of the 2027\/28 campaign. In his absence, both Josip Stanisic and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/2026\/konrad-laimer-extension-off\/\">the recently re-signed Konrad Laimer<\/a> have excelled on Ito\u2019s preferred left-hand side. The German giants also signed Nathaniel Brown this summer and have publicly stated that they intend to keep presumed starting left back Alphonso Davies in the squad. There simply isn\u2019t room for Ito.<\/p>\n<h3>Max Eberl on Hiroki Ito<\/h3>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Bayern\u2019s Board Member for Sport Max Eberl effectively confirmed that Ito was free to depart if he wished while speaking to the newspaper. If not, the injury-prone 27-year-old can expect to work in a reserve central defensive role. At present, there are whispers that Hamburg and other Bundesliga clubs are interested in taking Ito on loan. There\u2019s nevertheless nothing reliable surfacing as of yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Hiro were to have second thoughts because he realizes things are getting difficult, then we\u2019ll address it,\u201d Eberl told the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/\">GGFN<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PeterVicey\"><strong>Peter Weis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 The local M\u00fcnchener Abendzeitung reports that Bayern Munich defender Hiroki Ito is likely to be loaned out this season. Presumably, the German record champions do not wish to sell the player they once invested \u20ac23.5m in. The fact that Ito has spent most of his two Bayern seasons on the sidelines has seen his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/assets\/team-japan-airport-arrival-fifa-world-cup-2026-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1489,339,3197,3196,3198,3195,1490,2048],"class_list":["post-1664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-bayern","tag-defender","tag-hiroki","tag-injuryprone","tag-ito","tag-loaning","tag-munich","tag-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}