Manchester City scouted Bundesliga starlets Florian Wirtz and Jamal Musiala in final weekend’s large battle between Bayern Leverkusen and Bayern Munich.
The 20-year-olds are “players of interest” to City boss Pep Guardiola. That was the phrase used to the Daily Star Sunday to clarify the presence of the Etihad delegation on the BayArena, the place England captain Harry Kane’s Bayern suffered a 3-0 beating.
And it underlined that Liverpool gained’t have the sector to themselves as curiosity hots up in Germany’s attacking midfielders. City’s Premier League title rivals had been additionally represented in Leverkusen and the Reds have been thought to be frontrunners for Wirtz and Musiala.
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Both are valued at £80million. But Leverkusen’s Wirtz has been on City’s radar for a while – as first revealed by the Daily Star Sunday .
Last season’s Treble winners have additionally been alerted concerning the potential availability in the summertime of Musiala, after talks stalled on a brand new contract. He has two years remaining on his present deal at Bayern.
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Musiala was introduced up in England. And by means of his British-Nigerian father, he represented the Three Lions at Under-21 degree after beginning his profession within the academies at Southampton and Chelsea.
The Stuttgart-born Musiala switched his allegiance to the nation of his start. And he’s now an everyday within the German squad.