Kyle Walker was left in private in front of a shambles. Ultimately, this also had an influence on his Bayern deal. Image: AP / Dave Shopland
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Kyle Walker was close to moving from Manchester City to FC Bayern last summer. The flirtation between the record champions and the professional got really hot in August 2023. The right-back was particularly popular with coach Thomas Tuchel at the time. In the end, the transfer fell through and Walker extended his contract in Manchester.
Apparently, non-sporting motives played a decisive role for the England international, as he now admits. Because while his career was going well, his private life was in shambles.
Now Premier League star Kyle Walker is speaking surprisingly openly about his sex scandal and affairs. He makes it clear what was really going on with him privately – and why he ultimately decided against a move to Bayern.
Kyle Walker has achieved a lot privately.Image: imago images / Mark Cosgrove / News Images
Kyle Walker unpacks: Bayern deal collapsed due to love chaos
It was his goal to extend his stay at Manchester anyway, as the defender now said in an interview with the “Sun” He openly admits. He saw a move to the record champions as just a way to escape the public backlash that was hitting him in the face.
Because: Shortly before, the English international’s affair had become public. He had cheated on an influencer with whom he had already had a secret child. Now he says he made “idiotic decisions” over his affair with Lauryn Goodman and regrets cheating on his estranged wife Annie Kilner. He appears remorseful to the “Sun”:
“What I did is terrible and I take full responsibility. I made an idiotic choice and idiotic decisions.”
Walker’s wife separated immediately after the affair became known, but only for a short time. He was picked apart by the public. It’s probably hard for him to bear. About that time he says: “I tried to escape from it.” This is also why there were intensive discussions with FC Bayern. It was a chance to get out of England and the headlines. In addition, FC Bayern is “a great and gigantic club”.
Kyle Walker and Annie Kilner (r.) were together for twelve years. Image: imago images / Kieran McManus / Shutterstock
But the deal fell through. Not least because of his wife Annie Kilner and their children, as he reveals. “In the end I couldn’t go,” Walker says. His cheating had already caused a lot of “pain and emotions”. If he had moved to Germany, he would have abandoned his children. For him, the right decision: “At the moment I can go home, take the children to school and the little one to football,” says Walker about the end of the Bayern deal and staying in England.
In his conversation he also gives insight into his emotions during the time when his affair was exposed in public. At that time he called his wife Annie from the Man City training ground to warn her: “I have to tell you something. I had a one-night stand with someone,” he said to her. Only then did he talk about the first baby with the influencer. It came out later that it didn’t stop there and that it wasn’t just a one-night stand.
Because he shouldn’t be the only child with his affair. The extent of his secret love affair finally came to light on Boxing Day 2023. The influencer Goodman called Walker’s wife and explained everything to her.
Goodman was already pregnant by Walker in 2020. At that time, the public did not yet know who the father was.Image: imago images/Matrix / MATRIXPICTURES.CO.UK
Man City star Kyle Walker needs to stabilize his private life
The star is currently in the headlines again because of her second child with the influencer. Particularly explosive: The fourth child is currently on the way with his estranged wife. She recently announced the separation on Instagram. There she wrote:
“Sadly, after many years of marriage and three wonderful children together, I have decided to separate from Kyle for a time. I do not wish to comment further on this situation. For now, I ask for the privacy of myself and our three “To respect young children during this difficult time.”
Walker gives insight into his emotions during the time his affair was exposed.Image: AP / Dave Shopland
Why is he unpacking now? Walker is opening up now so he can “at least explain himself and give my wife and children the privacy they so desperately need and deserve.” If he could go back and do it differently, he would, he reveals.
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Kyle Walker was close to moving from Manchester City to FC Bayern last summer. The flirtation between the record champions and the professional got really hot in August 2023. The right-back was particularly popular with coach Thomas Tuchel at the time. In the end, the transfer fell through and Walker extended his contract in Manchester.