Manchester City set to battle Liverpool to sign £32m Germany star

MANCHESTER CITY have joined Liverpool in the race to sign Schalke's Leroy Sane, according to reports.

 

Leroy Sane is highly-thought of in Germany

 

Jurgen Klopp's Reds were thought to be the leading contenders for the highly-rated 19-year-old.

But the Guardian claim City have made the teenager a major transfer target.

 

Schalke are understood to want £32million (€40m) for Sane, who has been supposedly watched by City since December 2013.

Yesterday, Klopp was quoted by German newspaper Bild hinting at an interest in Sane and his team-mate Joel Matip.

"Are we interested in Sane and Matip? They are Schalke players, right? It is correct that we are looking at all options," Klopp said.

 

"I do not have any plans to only bring in players from the Bundesliga. 

"There is nothing wilder than transfer rumours in England.

"You can insist 10 times that you will not sign a new goalkeeper, yet the papers will write the next day that you are interested in signing a goalkeeper, or perhaps even two."

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