Bayern Munich and Liverpool have shared a number of players in recent seasons, with all of Sadio Mane, Thiago Alcantara, Ryan Gravenberch and Luis Diaz turning out for both teams.

They join an illustrious list of players to have represented two of Europe’s most decorated clubs, which also includes the likes of Xabi Alonso, Philippe Coutinho and Dietmar Hamann.

Bayern Munich may try and sign Loris Karius

Liverpool supporters generally do not hold a lot of love for Karius after his infamous performance in the 2018 Champions League final. Although tests showed that the German had potentially been concussed during the game after an elbow from Sergio Ramos, he was clearly at fault for the Reds losing in Kyiv.

His display in Ukraine will forever go down as one of the very worst individual performances by a Liverpool player, and that it happened on such a big stage makes it even more glaring.

For years, the goalkeeper struggled to rebuild his career, but since joining Schalke in 2025, Karius has finally been playing regularly once again. Now 33, he helped them to promotion last season and is currently their starting goalkeeper back in the Bundesliga.

Things are not going brilliantly, with Schalke sitting near the bottom of the table, but Falk has claimed that Karius could still end up with Bayern, who are looking at goalkeepers ahead of Neuer’s expected retirement at the end of the season.

“We’ve already talked a lot about this goalkeeper shortlist. There are quite a few names on it, and Loris Karius is indeed on it. So, he’s a name that Bayern find interesting,” the journalist said on a BILD podcast.

“That means they’d first have to convince him to come to Bayern as number two. The second issue is that he would probably cost a transfer fee of a few million, and Bayern don’t really want that.

“So, are there any candidates who probably wouldn’t cost a transfer fee? We already mentioned Bernd Leno as a candidate.Oliver Baumann is actually on there too. I don’t think he’s very high up because of his age, but he’s on there.”

Jonas Urbig looks set to take over permanent starting duties from Neuer, but Karius would still likely get the odd game here and there. Nine years on from his nightmare in Kyiv, that would be quite the comeback story for a player who’s career had felt to be almost over after leaving Liverpool.