German striker Lukas Podolski has revealed how Manchester City visited his agent earlier his profession to supply him a transfer from Bayern Munich.
The striker has been speaking to the 1. FC Köln podcast, relayed by BILD, about his profession thus far, which has seen him play in Germany, Italy, England, Turkey, Japan and now Poland.
He began his profession with Köln and made his method up the varied ranks on the membership earlier than starring for the primary crew after which incomes a transfer to Bayern Munich in 2006.
It was solely Bayern Munich and later Arsenal, reasonably than Manchester City, who managed to lure him away from the membership, with BILD explaining that Cologne and Podolski get pleasure from ‘real love’, even to today, that proves tough to interrupt.
That didn’t cease the gives from coming in down the years, although, and it appears reasonably than returning to the town in 2009, he might have as a substitute moved to Manchester City.
“I was in negotiations with Manchester City when I was at Bayern Munich,” he instructed the podcast about the place he might have ended up.
“They visited my agent and me in Munich and wanted to convince me to change.”