Bayer Leverkusen -star Florian Wirtz has emerged as the best target of Manchester City in the summer window while Pep Guardiola is looking for a replacement for the departing Kevin De Bruyne
Manchester City has received a huge blow after he has reportedly learned that Florian Wirtz – the man they hoped would replace the Kevin De Bruyne – would only like to move to Bayern Munich this summer. City looked earlier as front runners to sign the exciting Bayer Leverkusen game maker, who has a series of teams that follows after him after another fantastic season in the Bundesliga.
Wirtz has achieved ten goals and ten assists in the German top flight, with another six strikes in the Champions League this season, and he is now being tipped to take the next step of his career by becoming a member of a top club.
He was previously reserved as the ideal successor to De Bruyne, who announced that he would leave spell this season after a decade.
City was encouraged that they had moved to the front of the queue, given the interest of Leverkusen in their midfielder James Mcatee and goalkeeper Stefan Ortega and they hoped to use it as a lever in their attempt to sign Wirtz.
Leverkusen -Officaries even traveled to the Etihad campus of the city for conversations about the duo, with the Germans, £ 25 million quoted McATEE, which led to the confidence that the Wirtz deal could soon become a formality.
But reports from Germany have now claimed that City has received a huge setback in their pursuit of Wirtz, who told Manager Xabi Alonso, he only wants to become a member of Leverkusen's Bundesliga-rivals Bayern Munich.
Sport Bild has reported that the 22-year-old the city is disappointed, along with Real Madrid-Die also watched the player and were tempted to make an offer for him this summer.
Bayern -Baas Vincent Kompany now seems to frustrate his former club city by making their top goal while he builds on his Bundesliga title win in his first season.
The Bavarian side made their interest in Wirtz clearly after Chief Karl-Heinz Rummenigge had spoken a movement for the player earlier this year.
He called him “the best player in Germany” and said that he “makes no secret of the fact that it should clearly be our goal to sign Wirtz”.
Rummenigge added: “Everyone at FC Bayern agrees that he is exactly the player we want to sign. To not weaken Leverkusen, but to strengthen us.”
It comes at a time when Leverkusen is also in danger of losing the Alonso manager, who is a number one target for Real Madrid in the midst of uncertainty about the future of Carlo Ancelotti – with reports the Italian has agreed to leave the Bernabeu for a second time.
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