It's official: Dayot Upamecano will move to Bayern at the end of the season

They win trophies - they buy the best in Germany. What they want, they get. Others can only watch and learn. Bayern has won again. Two days after winning the FIFA Club World Cup, Bayern bought its first reinforcement for the next season in the form of Dayot Upamecano.

The French stopper will move to the Allianz Arena in the summer in a job worth 42,500,000 euros. That is the buy out clause that the German champion will pay to RB Leipzig, two years before the expiration of the contract extended this summer. The team from the Red Bull Arena will receive great compensation and continue the policy of selling the best players to European giants since they forwarded Naby Keita to Liverpool for 60,000,000 euros, and Tim Werner to Chelsea for 53,000,000. The third most expensive exit transfer in the history of Leipzig was noticed, as well as the third most valuable purchase of Bayern because the Bavarians paid more only to Tea Hernandez Atletico Madrid (80,000,000) and Leroy Sane to Manchester City (around 50,000,000 euros).

The transfer was officially confirmed by the Bayern sports director Hasan Salihamidžić.

"I can confirm that, and we are very happy about that at FC Bayern. We had very good, intensive, and professional discussions with Dayot and his agent Volker Struth for several months. We knew we had a very tough competition. Upamecano is a young player at the age of 22, whose qualities are already exceptionally developed. At the end of a long process, the player, his family, and his management were convinced that FC Bayern is the right partner for them" said “Braco” to Bild.

After losing David Alaba on a free transfer (and they might lose Jerome Boateng too), the Bavarians didn’t want to wait until June and got an excellent, young, Champions League experienced center half, who will eventually be 5 to 6 million euros per year cheaper than Alaba. What a great piece of business.