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

[TheThirdDeano]

With the whole squad, or working on his own?

Good news whichever.

Not sure pal, just a post on his Instagram!

 

[razman]

 

[vmsuhail]

Sane was a big game player, always turned up when it mattered, the sign of a quality player.

He was perhaps the best of our forwards in games against Liverpool. 4 goals against them in 5 matches?, had a goal disallowed in the CL and won a penalty at Anfield against VVD.

 

[domalino]

Back on the pitch today, will be nice to have him back!

Why would we even play him?

Unless hes going to sign a new contract I dont see why wed waste our time getting him fit for Bayern.

Could give him a few run outs in the cup or if we have so many injuries we cant field a team without him, but I dont see why Pep would play a player who doesnt want to be here.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Specially when compared to Sterling who was nothing more consistent than him in their respective times at City and had pretty much same stats. Actually, I think Leroy never had a period where he looked as average player as Sterling had last few weeks (more like 3 months).

It's seriously mind-boggling myth. Sane was delivering each week until Pep started to play hard with him because he didn't fucking track back vs Crystal Palace and even then he was delivering very often and in very important games. I love Pep to bits, but I don't care how brilliant manager he is, we were best team when Sane was one of the main parts of it. We played our best football, we were scoring more goals, more beautiful goals and nobody was close to us.

Despite the 14 wins run at the end of the last season, we were not close to the football we played before that when Sane was regular starter and some of the games in that run were, in hindsight, the start of our current problems. Not defense wise, as we played probably the best defensive football in recent years with Kompany and Laporte there and won the league with being great at the back, but in our overall football. Many 1:0 wins where we were struggling to create or finish the chances. We struggled heavily in significant parts of games against Spurs, Rags, Leicester or even Burnley. That spilled over to quite a few games this season, but this time without Kompany and Laporte at the back.

I don't think Sane will stay, but that is and will be a huge miss. Specially if Pep doesn't stay for long.

Indeed!

I’ll be fucking gutted if he goes.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Why would we even play him?

Unless hes going to sign a new contract I dont see why wed waste our time getting him fit for Bayern.

Could give him a few run outs in the cup or if we have so many injuries we cant field a team without him, but I dont see why Pep would play a player who doesnt want to be here.

Who said he doesn’t want to be here?

And our current left winger who’s a right winger has played well for about 3½ games out of 23 this season.

We’ve got a European Cup to win and we’ve never been better than when we had Leroy-Kun-Sterling as our front three.

 

[domalino]

Who said he doesn’t want to be here?

He did, when he repeatedly refused to sign the contracts offered to him.


Pep literally said before the community shield that they'd been trying to get him to sign for 18 months, and at the beginning of the summer they thought he might, and then he changed his mind, and then he said he didn't want any players that didn't want to be here.

 

[shevtheblue]

He did, when he repeatedly refused to sign the contracts offered to him.


Pep literally said before the community shield that they'd been trying to get him to sign for 18 months, and at the beginning of the summer they thought he might, and then he changed his mind, and then he said he didn't want any players that didn't want to be here.

He has a contract, that's why we should play him.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

You lads are talking like he's gone. Is it that bad?

Nobody has any idea.

 

[oakiecokie]

Why would we even play him?

Unless hes going to sign a new contract I dont see why wed waste our time getting him fit for Bayern.

Could give him a few run outs in the cup or if we have so many injuries we cant field a team without him, but I dont see why Pep would play a player who doesnt want to be here.

Exactly.For all his silky skills he`s still a miserable fuck who often gets a cob on when he`s not picked or subbed.Sooner have someone who wants to be here,irrespective of how he can change a game but he has to show more consistency for me.
Wonderful talent when he can be bothered, which is a real shame as he could be a true world beater.If only he had the guile of Sterling.