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

[ManCitizens.]

Been obvious for a long time, but at least this draws a line under it. We have very little bargaining power now, so just need to get as good a fee as possible this summer. Zero point in making him see out his contract.

Hazard went for £125m with one year left. I still think we can get £60-80m for him

 

[Don Karleone]

Sick of hearing about him, just get rid.

 

[Blue Smarties]

He's got the world at his feet, but I'd rather not keep players who don't buy into what we want to achieve as a club.

 

[pudge]

If only people had been saying for a long time that he was a smidge selfish

 

[dhruvblue]

I hope we still hold for £65m-£60m.

Bayern wants player

Sane wants to move

They want to be happy and all but that doesn't mean we should bend over for cheap. £60m should be minimum that we target.


And yes he shouldn't be in match day squad too. Don't waste space on him. Give kids a chance or have 2 GKs there

 

[ganganvince]

Get. Fucking. Rid.

Personally I'd take whatever we can get once the season ends and send him on his way. Absolutely ZERO interest in keeping hold of him, even to try and make some petty point to Bayern.

I would much rather have a player who the manager trusts and who wants to be at the club.

Just hope we come up against Bayern in Portugal thrash them and show him what a step down he is taking.

 

[Barcon]

Well, I guess that's that then. I would prefer we give him to Dortmund for nothing.

 

[ealing blue]

We're not exactly is a strong negotiation position. I'd be amazed if we get more than £30m for him

 

[BillyShears]

I know how this goes and it's already started on Twitter. People obsessing about the fee and crying about what City are losing.

We paid 35/40 million for him and we kept him for 3 years in which time he contributed to two very big seasons and a huge goal against Liverpool last season.

We've gotten our money's worth. Nobody should give one shiny fuck how much money we get for him. The only consideration is who comes in next.

 

[ninjamonkey]

Best we can do now is use him as a bargaining chip to get somebody were interested in from Bayern.

I don’t begrudge him wanting to leave us, we’ve been very fortunate that nobody we have wanted to keep has expressed a desire to leave us in a decade now but I do have a slightly bitter taste for him doing it like this, he could have signed a new deal ages ago with the condition we sell him when he asks to leave and that way everybody gets a better deal but this way has screwed us financially.

As for sane as a player, gutted he’s going as I’ve always said he has the highest potential of all our younger players and for me the most exciting player to watch. he’s different to anything else we’ve got in the squad and any replacement needs to have the same qualities he possesses I.e raw pace, directness on the ball, the ability to go down the outside without needing to cut back inside and the willingness to base his game predominantly as an off the ball runner in behind. If we sign another Bernardo/mahrez type to play out wide we’re going to find it a lot harder to break teams down with very little threat in behind.