Manuel Neuer will call time on his career as soon as he feels Germany and Bayern Munich no longer need him.
Neuer, 33, has been first-choice Germany goalkeeper for the best part of a decade, while he has been of similar importance to Bayern since joining them in 2011.
But the Schalke academy product has endured injury problems more frequently in the past three seasons, missing almost the entirety of 2017-18 with a broken foot.
Neuer was also absent for a chunk of last term with thumb and calf issues, though he remains the go-to man between the posts for club and country, starting all but one of Germany’s 11 post-World Cup matches and Bayern’s three games of the new Bundesliga campaign. Read more