BAYERN MUNICH have agreed a £54.8million deal for Manchester City winger Leroy Sane.
The Bundesliga champs have been chasing speedster Sane for months and have finally got their man.
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Bayern will pay £44.7m fee up front with a further £10.1m in add-ons, while City have negotiated a 10 per cent sell-on clause
Sane has agreed bumper £20m contract – pocketing more than double what was on the table from his current employers.
City are pleased with the deal, which comes in a coronavirus-hit market, after managing to land an extra £20m on top of what Bayern were hoping to pay for a player whose career has been hit by injuries.
Pep Guardiola’s Citizens are still in the Champions League and Sane will not feature when the competition resumes in August.
The dazzling winger has scored 39 goals in 135 City appearances since signing from Schalke in 2014.
But he has been linked with a move away since before the start of the season when a long-term injury derailed a move to Germany.
Guardiola has already revealed he is unlikely to sign a replacement for Sane due to the depth of talent in his squad.
And that could be a huge boost for England starlet Phil Foden, who has been in sparking form since the restart.
Speaking ahead of the win over Burnley, Guardiola said: “First, Leroy is our player. I don’t know if he is going to leave this summer or the end of his contract.
“But we have enough good players up front. Gabriel can play on the left, Phil Foden can play on the left, we have Raheem there.
“We have big, talented players up front. Most of them are in good, healthy conditions, like Phil, Riyad, Gabriel, Raheem.
“They can play quite regularly for a long period of time, they are so stable in terms of injury situations.”
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
