Karl is enjoying a breakout season this term at Bayern and is being hailed as the best prospect to emerge from German football in years.
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The teen, however, caused some controversy when recently declaring Real Madrid as his "dream club".
“Lennart wears his heart on his sleeve," said Freund on Tuesday.
"He’s not afraid of anything, even with us on the pitch. That’s how he plays football. It was unfortunate, and he realised that immediately.
“He also apologised for it. We spoke about it. He came to us and said it wasn’t meant that way at all.”