While Pep Guardiola isn’t shy of giving first-team opportunities to young players, he didn’t have much success with Bayern Munich’s academy graduates.
Guardiola won the Bundesliga titles in each of his three years in Germany but failed to unearth the next Bastian Schweinsteiger or Philipp Lahm.
During his time in Bavaria, he never quite boasted a success story like Manchester City’s golden boy Phil Foden, nor called upon Bayern’s Sabener Strasse youth products as he did with the starlets emerging from Barcelona’s fabled La Masia – the academy, of course, where he came through himself.
We’ve taken a look back at every academy product Guardiola handed a senior debut to at Bayern Munich.
Signed from Schalke as a teenager, Raeder made his senior Bayern debut in a 3-0 defeat to Borussia Dortmund in April 2014, replacing an injured Manuel Neuer at half-time.
The goalkeeper only made two more appearances for the club and signed for Portuguese club Vitoria Setubal at the expiration of his contract.
After making four appearances for Bradford City in 2017-18, he returned to Germany to play for third-tier VfB Lubeck. Nowadays he’s turning out for Bulgarian side Lokomotiv Plovdiv.
Timing is everything in football, but Sallahi got his all wrong as his one and only first-team appearance came as Bayern lost their 53-game unbeaten streak with defeat to Augsburg in the Bavarian derby in April 2014.
He joined second-tier outfit Karlsruher SC in January 2015 but has been without a club for the last five years.
Green was regarded as one of Bayern’s brightest prospects and made his first-team debut against CSKA Moscow in the Champions League in November 2013.
The USA international then went to the 2014 World Cup and became the youngest
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