Sane to Bavaria? What Goretzka says

National player Leon Goretzka hopes for a change from Leroy Sane to the German record champion Bayern Munich. “We’d all be brutally happy if he came,” the 24-year-old told the tabloid. Nevertheless, he did not want to influence his former team-mate from the joint time with Schalke 04 in his decision.

“I had a similar situation last year, had to make a decision for myself. And he was also of the opinion that it was best to do it alone,” said Goretzka. Goretzka, his Munich teammate Serge Gnabry and Sane, who is under contract to the English champions Manchester City, had played together at the top of the European Championship qualification against the Netherlands (3:2).

“That’s my soccer ball, no question. It’s just fun and it’s a football that can be very attractive to fans,” Goretzka said. For himself, he sees the move to the German championship as a “golden decision”, although he had doubts about moving to Munich as a player without a transfer.

“If you switch to FC Bayern free of charge, it will certainly be more difficult for the time being than if you came for a high two-digit million amount. Because the understanding, the public pressure is different,” said Goretzka: “I had a great first season for that, played a lot of games, could actually count me among the regular players.