What will happen with Bayern’s prodigiously talented but up-and-down winger?
Leroy Sané wants to stay at Bayern Munich. And the club’s top sporting executive, Max Eberl, wants him. So what’s the hold up?
A new report from Sport Bild has the details…and it is simultaneously encouraging and sobering for fans of the German winger who want him to stay in Bavaria. Via @iMiaSanMia_GER:
In Leroy Sané’s contract poker, Max Eberl is his biggest advocate at FC Bayern. They have a good, trusting relationship. Sané was able to score points by committing to Bayern early on. Despite the positive discussions, he still hasn’t received an offer.
If Sané receives an offer, it will be at a reduced salary. He would be willing to play for less than he currently receives ( € 20 million per year). Those within the club who argue against Sané’s offer are citing his lack of consistency. His performances would have to be consistently good.
For Eberl, it’s also important to know which wingers he can sell: Gnabry doesn’t want to leave. Coman is seriously considering a move. If both were to leave, Sané would have a better chance. However, the decision will likely come late. Sané could already have signed elsewhere.
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That last paragraph could be the sticking point. Sané, on his day, is an outrageous talent — and questions over his consistency surely are not so much greater than that of Kingsley Coman or Serge Gnabry. And if Sané is not willing to go as far down as the reported €13M level Bayern supposedly want to shift him to, that can be worked out in negotiations.
But in Coman, Gnabry, and Sané, the Bavarians have three wingers earning big salaries and all three are veterans approaching 30. That’s on top of Harry Kane (31) and Thomas Müller (35), the latter of whom is mulling (mülling?) another season in Bavaria…it is both a crowded and veteran-heavy attacking group in need of fresh legs. This season’s explosive addition of 23-year-old Michael Olise is an emphatic argument in that favor.
Sané just happens to be the easiest of the three to move on — by virtue of his expiring contract in June — and for him to stay, it might even be easier for two others to go. But those decisions will take time, and that could be time enough for another top club at Champions League level, such as Arsenal FC and its rumored “serious” interest in the German playmaker, to swoop in with a solid offer.
Reading the tea leaves? There is no reason Sané can’t or shouldn’t stay at FC Bayern, except for the circumstances — which have conspired to make the path to remain a very narrow one at this point in time.
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