Bayern Munich chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has confirmed the Bundesliga champions' willingness to sign Kingsley Coman on a permanent deal.
Coman's two-year loan deal from Juventus concludes at the end of this season and Bayern must decide whether to exercise their option on the 20-year-old France winger by April.
"At the moment we have a tendency to meet the option," Rummenigge told Fussball Bild.
"We will have our time to decide this. In principal, we are completely convinced of the player.
"But we also have to state that last season was better than this season, whereas he had some injury problems [this season]."
The 23-year-old has impressed with seven goals in 15 appearances since moving to the Bundesliga from Arsenal last August and marked his breakthrough into Joachim Low's Germany set-up with a hat-trick versus minnows San Marino in World Cup qualifying.
"Gnabry is a player of Werder Bremen and I do not want to make any problems with our colleagues in Bremen," he added.
"Of course we will always watch German national players, but if we do something else, I do not know.
"We are covered on the wings, with Ribery, Costa and probably Coman as far as next season is concerned."
