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

[kaz7]

Is this the first time we have been in a situation like this since the takeover?

I dont recall any previous.

First time we would have lost a top player we wanted to keep

 

[Tricky_Trev]

Is this the first time we have been in a situation like this since the takeover?

I dont recall any previous.

I’d say so yeah. We’ve no doubt had plenty of approaches for our players before, but it’s been easy to repel them as the players have been so sure that they want to stay. Any we’ve sold, we have wanted to sell.

I feel like this has been inevitable though. Even two years ago we were posting saying that Sané will be the one that breaks the trend. I always felt it would be a move to Spain, but didn’t consider Bayern, don’t know why. You get a feeling with certain players, and my feeling has always been that Sané wouldn’t stay here for the long haul like Aguero, Silva, Vinnie etc.

 

[Proy]

First time we would have lost a top player we wanted to keep

Yep that's what I meant.

99% of our players want to stay.

 

[chase of spades]

Can’t lie ..quite surprised by how many people think these quotes from Kovac means Leroy’s off. Think it’s the opposite,he’ll stay,was always staying imo. Pretty happy with these quotes tbh

 

[Proy]

I’d say so yeah. We’ve no doubt had plenty of approaches for our players before, but it’s been easy to repel them as the players have been so sure that they want to stay. Any we’ve sold, we have wanted to sell.

I feel like this has been inevitable though. Even two years ago we were posting saying that Sané will be the one that breaks the trend. I always felt it would be a move to Spain, but didn’t consider Bayern, don’t know why. You get a feeling with certain players, and my feeling has always been that Sané wouldn’t stay here for the long haul like Aguero, Silva, Vinnie etc.

Unfortunately I agree.

 

[MadchesterCity]

Women, eh? They'd start a row in an empty phone box*


*Younger BMers; ask your grandparents what a "phone box" is.

Somewhere you can go to take spice?
Or not anymore as the case maybe

 

[grim up north]

It’s certainly brought the doom and gloom merchants out

 

[jrb]

Another little twist coming out of Bayern.



The manager has said he is increasingly confident of bringing the Germany winger to the Bundesliga, but his boss isn't happy

Karl-Heinz Rummenigge was annoyed by comments made by Bayern Munich Manager Niko Kovac about Manchester City winger Leroy Sane.

Bayern’s interest in Sane is no secret, and Kovac said recently that he was confident about signing the 23-year-old.

But club chief Rummenigge is concerned that making a statement about a player under contract at City could harm relations between the two clubs, particularly with City boss Pep Guardiola vocal about his desire to keep him.


"I did not like what he said,” Rummenigge told ZDF.

“We have a good relationship with Manchester City and our former coach Pep Guardiola.

“Sane still has a contract there. Neither optimistic nor pessimistic quotes do anything to help us in that matter."

 

[chaddblue]

Good relationship!?!?

These are the ****s that most people suspect are behind all the allegations made by that German comic

Wouldn't read too much into the latest comments. Personally think it's more likely to mean they've been told to back off or face the consequences

 

[IBlue]

Can’t lie ..quite surprised by how many people think these quotes from Kovac means Leroy’s off. Think it’s the opposite,he’ll stay,was always staying imo. Pretty happy with these quotes tbh

Completely agree, seems to me that they've been warned, we do our talking in private. Sane will ask for assurances of more game time imho.