Pep Guardiola has ruled out reinforcing his Bayern Munich squad during the upcoming January transfer window amid an ongoing injury crisis at the club.
Guardiola currently has 11 players unavailable for Bayern's final game the year on Friday against Mainz, with Transfermarkt.de reporting those players to be worth some 226 million euros.
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Despite their injury problems in the first half of the season, the Bavarian club have all but secured their third consecutive league title as they lead the Bundesliga by 11 points -- drawing just three times -- 16 games into the season.
Their big goal for 2015 is to win back the Champions League crown from Real Madrid in the final in Berlin on June 6. Guardiola believes that the current crop of players in the Bayern squad can achieve just that, and that no reinforcements are necessary in the upcoming transfer window.
"No, no, no!" Guardiola told reporters wanting to know whether he wished for signings during his news conference on Thursday. "I don't want any new players. Fewer players, fewer problems."
Bayern could even decrease the size of their squad during the winter break, with sporting executive Matthias Sammer hinting earlier this week that 19-year-old midfield talent Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg is set to leave the club on loan.
According to kicker, domestic rival Borussia Monchengladbach -- who could offer the Dane Europa League football in the second half of the season -- are heavily interested in the player.
And Switzerland international Xherdan Shaqiri's time at the club also appears to be running out, with the 23-year-old linked to the likes of Liverpool, Juventus and also Wolfsburg in the past.
According to several reports in Germany, the playmaker is set to leave Bayern in the winter despite Guardiola insisting that both Shaqiri and Hojbjerg will be part of the squad travelling to the club's winter training camp in Qatar.
Meanwhile, Bayern CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has told Bild that Guardiola is currently not thinking about prolonging his contract, which ends in 2016.
"We have a super relationship. And we will do all we can that he stays here. He's of an unbelievable value for us," he said.
"But he is still under contract for another 18 months. That's light years for him. And he's not a person who places value on long-term security or on just getting a better contract. It's not the right time to discuss a new deal with him yet. We'll see when that will be."