Deal agreed with Bayern Munich for Leroy Sane - €60m (including add-ons)

[Phil1]

I'm sure you realize I'm not interested in who you take seriously.

Yes, but I still like to remind you from time to time.

 

[Dax777]

Yes, but I still like to remind you from time to time.

I appreciate that. Don't ever let me forget :)

 

[St.Pauli support]

There are so many hints in his behaviour for still being quite infantile,
but I wonder why his "management" - I hope his mother is out? - doesn't step in to develop his career in a serious way for him?

He is a little sulking childish dickhead and very difficult to deal with on a rational base IMO.
Btw, how is Nasri doing? Great footballer too...

Just for clarification, my poor English made me abuse Leroy as dickhead when I wanted to express
that I think he's stubborn. In German it is "Dickkopf", how would you say, pighead or thickhead?

So genuine apologies to Leroy or anyone offended.

And I'd like to add we should be careful explaining Leroy's reasons to probably prefer Bayern.
We don't know about his daughter, his partner, his mother/father,
we don't know if country or language or Pep or weather or German friends are important or not.
We are just speculating.

For whatever reason, I don't like the way he is treating his current club and never came out to say anything positive about City in the last 2 years or had the standing to say he'd like to play somewhere else - only to improve the negotiation position of his next club.

KDB wouldn't behave that way, or David, Bernardo, you name it.
It's poor and IMO a lack of character. Leroy has to learn a lot in life.

 

[Pepsi guardiola]

What ever the reasons the decision has been made that he’s not part of the future. Sorting the forwards line isn’t the first priority.... to regain the title need a vast improvement In options at centre, a replacement for Kompany as leader on the pitch.

I genuinely wish Sane all the best as he’s a great player on his day and huge potential to get even better

 

[SatOnTheWall]

It looks to me like the people who run the german national team and bayern have clubbed together to force him back to germany. What other nation would leave the best young player in England out of their world cup squad? And why else would they do it? Leaving him out of the world cup squad and a threat to continue if he stays at City would make any footballer change his thoughts.

With that in mind, I think:

a) it was fucking great that germany finished bottom of their group in the last world cup. I mean it would have been nice anyway, but well, you piss people off and they will piss their sides laughing at you when you fall flat on your face.

b) you can't really put the blame on Leroy. Who doesn't want to play football for their country?

c) BM doesn't mean bayern munich, it means BlackMail.

 

[St.Pauli support]

It looks to me like the people who run the german national team and bayern have clubbed together to force him back to germany. What other nation would leave the best young player in England out of their world cup squad? And why else would they do it? Leaving him out of the world cup squad and a threat to continue if he stays at City would make any footballer change his thoughts.

With that in mind, I think:

a) it was fucking great that germany finished bottom of their group in the last world cup. I mean it would have been nice anyway, but well, you piss people off and they will piss their sides laughing at you when you fall flat on your face.

b) you can't really put the blame on Leroy. Who doesn't want to play football for their country?

c) BM doesn't mean bayern munich, it means BlackMail.

You don't know much about German football if you honestly think the whole country is discussing the squad going on a holy mission to Russia to defend the title
while Low in cooperation with Bayern would prefer Brandt over Sané only to bring Leroy to Bayern some years later. What?
NURSE! (for you mate, not for me)

In 2018 the world champions from 2014 were arrogant and complacent indeed and deserved to go out.
But Leroy wasn't called by Low mainly for 2 reasons:

1) many older players around Hummels, Kroos and Mueller were not happy at all about Leroy's starlet behaviour, as was Low himself. Team hierarchy didn't accept the mouthy newcomer. His workrate in training also didn't convince anybody, we know his body language...

2) Low didn't want to leave out young Brandt again (Leverkusen, now Dortmund) after not choosing him for the EUROs 2016.

It was a mistake IMO by Low, but it was too late anyway to change the lousy German squad mentality back then.
Nothing about Man City here.

 

[kaz7]

if tonight doesnt convince us that we need to replace him -nothing will

His first mins on the pitch in eleven months you mean

 

[kaz7]

Sick to my back teeth of this fucker now. Benefitting from the John Guidetti syndrome, the less he plays the better he gets. No doubt a good player who in very small doses has produced moments of brilliance but has gone missing an awful lot and has a stinking attitude on the pitch forever sulking.

The way him and Bayern have flirted all the way through this is a slap in the face for city and I can’t wait to see the back of him. Disgusting if Pep prefers to offer him game time over a potential superstar in Braaf who seemingly wants to play for this club.

That first half is bollocks,you need to go back and watch the century and season and his goals contributions when he did play last season,he has been and will be a big loss

 

[kaz7]

That back tattoo. That was the moment I knew him and Pep weren’t gonna gel.

You don't know much about why people get tattoo's do you?

 

[abu13]

I would be very tempted to give Sane a start today, if not then at least a decent run out.

 

[come-on-barney]

I would be very tempted to give Sane a start today, if not then at least a decent run out.

The problem with that is what message does that send to those are staying.

 

[abu13]

The problem with that is what message does that send to those are staying.

That the performance midweek wasn't good enough :)
To be fair maybe he should play at left back.

 

[come-on-barney]

That the performance midweek wasn't good enough :)
To be fair maybe he should play at left back.

I don’t want to appear itk, but actually heard he is in goal today.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

That first half is bollocks,you need to go back and watch the century and season and his goals contributions when he did play last season,he has been and will be a big loss

Doesn’t mean he’s not taken the piss though. He’s been picking up his money every week whilst being injured and I’ll bet he’s not had a pay cut like the rest of us would have, being long term sick. He could’ve signed a new contract and put in a transfer request, thus getting a proper fee for city and repaying some of the cash he’s been taking for the last 11 months. Not only that, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he turns a bit Milneresque, saying how Munich are his dream and so much better than City.
Anyway, sooner he’s gone the better.

 

[kaz7]

Doesn’t mean he’s not taken the piss though. He’s been picking up his money every week whilst being injured and I’ll bet he’s not had a pay cut like the rest of us would have, being long term sick. He could’ve signed a new contract and put in a transfer request, thus getting a proper fee for city and repaying some of the cash he’s been taking for the last 11 months. Not only that, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he turns a bit Milneresque, saying how Munich are his dream and so much better than City.
Anyway, sooner he’s gone the better.

That wasn't my point though,he has been very good for us,he is still 23/24 ? Not a 30 odd year old taking the piss,this is his last biggest deal for his peak so he can take his time,we also know the pressure bayern and Lowe can put on,if he goes on a free i might yell a bit !!

 

[Paul1970]

That wasn't my point though,he has been very good for us,he is still 23/24 ? Not a 30 odd year old taking the piss,this is his last biggest deal for his peak so he can take his time,we also know the pressure bayern and Lowe can put on,if he goes on a free i might yell a bit !!

I don’t think he has helped the situation though . If he had come out last season said he wants to go to Bayern instead of staying quiet we would have sold him . All he has done is basically fucked us over for a shitload of money . He didn’t want to stay last year so why not just come out with it .

 

[kaz7]

I don’t think he has helped the situation though . If he had come out last season said he wants to go to Bayern instead of staying quiet we would have sold him . All he has done is basically fucked us over for a shitload of money . He didn’t want to stay last year so why not just come out with it .

Pep said he was close to signing last summer then Bayern steamed in,he might just had been confused

 

[Gordyola]

Doesn’t mean he’s not taken the piss though. He’s been picking up his money every week whilst being injured and I’ll bet he’s not had a pay cut like the rest of us would have, being long term sick. He could’ve signed a new contract and put in a transfer request, thus getting a proper fee for city and repaying some of the cash he’s been taking for the last 11 months. Not only that, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he turns a bit Milneresque, saying how Munich are his dream and so much better than City.
Anyway, sooner he’s gone the better.

Firstly it’s not his fault he got injured and like any player would be paid during his recuperation City’s pay structure is based on lower basic and high bonuses for playing and winning therefore he wouldn’t have been getting more than his basic whilst injured
He could have signed a new contract and still angled to leave, as you suggest, he was offered a considerable increase on his existing contract so by refusing it he didn’t take the piss

 

[Paul1970]

Pep said he was close to signing last summer then Bayern steamed in,he might just had been confused

Wish you were right Karen but I don’t think he had no intention of signing .shame because players like don’t come around often What a fucking talent though .

 

[Don Karleone]