Congratulations to Julian Green on his free transfer to second division VfB Stuttgart. Unfortunately, the painful reality for the 21-year-old USMNT striker was that he never going to break into the first team reckoning at Bayern Munich.
Green, Tampa-born but who grew up in Germany, has been on the fringes at Bayern for almost seven years, graduating through the youth sides and reserves, but never actually made a Bundesliga first team appearance for the Bavarians.
As Bayern CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge stressed: "Julian wants to gain new experience at a club that can offer him regular first team football.