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

[cleavers]

Phil Foden will become best left sided attacker in the world - and he will be more versatile than Sane.
Pep already tried him wide left in the Burnley game.

Pep has already said that Phil is taking David's place, so not becoming "the best left sided attacker in the world", like David he'll play there at times, but we'll get someone else as replacement for Sane.

 

[the blue panther]

Good luck to him. A few brilliant moments in his time with us, but, he would never have the attitude of Silva, kdb, sterling or Foden. He wound me up just as much as he wound up Pep last season. We already have replacements, and, it was never going to last.

 

[urban genie]

I wonder why we agreed so soon? They said they would walk / highest offer? We could have dragged it out?

Probably because he cannot play till next season for them so not threat in the champions league to us,

Isn't going to get used much and if he was injury is a risk and any deal scuppered.

He wants to go, we are happy to let him go, why drag it out with all the negativity it could bring.


A deal of £58M after add ons for someone witha year left is a decent fee, we opened negotiations asking for around £80M with Munich offering £30 so this is probably the figure both always had in mind

 

[ChicagoBlue]

So what's stopping Bayern coming around with another couple of soft offers for players if we get a champions league ban, now that they know we're easy pickings?

Nothing.

You need a hug?

Fordyboy46 sounds like just the man you’re looking for. Enjoy!

 

[Mayor West]

Shame really I think if he recovers from his injury Fully, he has the potential to be the best player in the world. On his day he is amazing, still very young.

good luck to him.

No way, you way overrate how good he actually is.

 

[Jesus H Gabz]

So what's stopping Bayern coming around with another couple of soft offers for players if we get a champions league ban, now that they know we're easy pickings?

The length of players contracts?

 

[EL APACHE TEVEZ]

Great deal that.

 

[ganganvince]

Good fee. Good luck to him. Suspect there'll be lots of figures thrown around, but I reckon conservatively Bayern are paying him 300k a week. He'll be their second highest player after Lewandowski.

Braaf replacing him in the first team squad for the rest of the season is the rumour I've heard.

Ironic if Braaf got an fa cup and champs league medal

 

[cleavers]

Mate, I'm just annoyed he's gone, he was a matchwinner.

Hasn't won us one in over a year, so that's a poor definition of "match winner" for me.

 

[blueinsa]

Mate, I'm just annoyed he's gone, he was a matchwinner.

Undoubtedly but we have had to win plenty of games without him this last 4 years and im sure we will be fine.

 

[thelongbowman]

Gone, as expected. Best price we could expect. Move on, he is forgotten. And to be fair we were not bad last year without him. Need a new super sub now.

 

[Fordyboy46]

No way, you way overrate how good he actually is.

Very very good

 

[cleavers]

Braaf replacing him in the first team squad for the rest of the season is the rumour I've heard.

Good.

 

[ganganvince]

So what's stopping Bayern coming around with another couple of soft offers for players if we get a champions league ban, now that they know we're easy pickings?

The lure of Germany not as strong to all but 1

 

[BringBackSwales]

Mate, I'm just annoyed he's gone, he was a matchwinner.

Hang on you just said fucked over, pants pulled down, desperate for cash, and we should have got £100m for him. I just gave you the reasons you were wrong. That’s what just happened

 

[kaz7]

He will become the best left sided player in the world, so I'd have thought 100m quite easily. I know covid has smashed players values but I think 45m is still very low.

Good job it was a lot more then

 

[therealsvenn]

Surely Bayern are guilty of tapping him up?

 

[TFC]

If they don't want to be here, you have to let them go. See ya.

 

[Vienna_70]

Accounting fudge. They're paying €10m plus Pjanic in reality.

30th June is our Year End so suspect that's a part of reason it's happened today, which would be another reason our negotiating position was weakened.

You could have a point there.

I’m disappointed that Leroy is leaving, because I loved watching him in full flow and it was poetry in motion seeing him run, at full speed, on to Merlin’s beautifully weighted passes and create chance after chance.

In the circumstances (Sané's wish to leave, last year of contract, etc) I think it’s a decent deal, and we’ll be making €20 million+ profit on our investment.

Move on, invest the money back into the squad and watch Phil Foden develop .

 

[kaz7]

pep know is onions and if the lad does not understand or wants to work for the team than there is only going to be one winner ?

Huge assumptions