Pep Guardiola reveals Leroy Sane contract U-turn

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has claimed that Leroy Sane was close to penning a new contract with the club last month before making a U-turn.

Sane will see his current deal with the Premier League champions expire at the end of the 2020-21 campaign.

Guardiola recently revealed that there is a new deal on the table for the Germany international, but Bayern Munich are believed to be increasingly confident of completing a summer deal.

The City boss has claimed that an agreement had been close "two or three weeks ago", but Sane has since changed his mind.

"We want him to stay here because we [have been trying] to extend the contract for more than one year, we were quite close a month ago and now it's a little bit different but that's the reality - I can't say any more. That's where it is," The Telegraph quotes Guardiola as saying.

"What Txiki [Begiristain, the City director of football] sent me two or three weeks ago, it was quite close. Now it's not."

City are believed to have placed a £137m price tag on Sane amid speculation of interest from Bayern.