This sort of thing could be the agent or someone at their club telling the media something because he's getting sick of us trying to lower the price. A bit like Falcao last Summer. I don't think we had any interest in him at all, in fact I think our sights were on Bony but we had to wait and wait because of FFPR and ended up having to do the deal in January. It was just Monaco or Falcao's agenr who used our name to get more out of the deal with United.
I'd take little snippets of info like this with a pinch of salt. If there's a direct named quote from Bayern or Wolfsburh saying that then fair enough, but just a journo.