Manchester City put huge price tag on Leroy Sané to deter Bayern Munich

Leroy Sane

The Germany international has been heavily linked with a summer switch to Bavaria and Bayern boss Niko Kovac was even made to apologise to Pep Guardiola after saying he was “confident” a deal would be done.

However, the Telegraph reports that the Bundesliga champions will not get close to reaching City’s valuation of the player if German reports that they are set to make a bid of around €80 million are accurate.

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Alasdair Mackenzie is a freelance journalist based in Rome, and a FourFourTwo contributor since 2015. When not pulling on the FFT shirt, he can be found at Reuters, The Times and the i. An Italophile since growing up on a diet of Football Italia on Channel 4, he now counts himself among thousands of fans sharing a passion for Ross County and Lazio.