Bayern Munich sign Benfica’s Renato Sanches and Dortmund’s Mats Hummels

Bayern Munich have completed the signings of Benfica’s midfielder Renato Sanches and Borussia Dortmund’s defender Mats Hummels.

The 18-year-old Portuguese international Sanches will value Bayern €35m and add-ons while the fee for theGermany defender is undisclosed however believed to be around €30m. It has been reported that the fee for Sanches might reach the maximum amount as €80m. Both players have signed five-year deals.

Sanches was wanted by many high clubs, including Manchester United, but the Bundesliga winners won the race. The player completed a medical on Monday in Muenchen and the club’s business executive, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, said: “We have been keeping a watch on Renato Sanches for an extended time now and that we arterribly happy to own signed him despite lots of competition for him.


Rummenigge added of the 18-year-old, who was born in national capital to folks from Cape Verde: “Renato may be a dynamic, tough and technically adept midfielder World Health Organization can build our team stronger.”

Sanches featured for Benfica within the Champions League against Bayern Munich this season and Bayernsuperimposed in a very statement: “The fee for the Portuguese international is €35m with bonuses if he's elite in the Fifa team of the year or wins the Fifa player of the year award.”

Hummels, who grew up in Muenchen, had one year left on his contract with Dortmund. “We are delighted that Mats Hummels has determined to be a part of FC Bayern,” said Rummenigge. “He is one of the simplest central defenders within the world and our team are improved by his presence.”

The defender, who has not nevertheless passed his medical, said on Dortmund’s website: “This is a call that, after eight and a 0.5 roaring years at Dortmund, I did not take easily. I have always been proud, and still am, to wear the Dortmund shirt and to be a part of this extraordinary team.

“Before I return to my home town we have a tendency to have one massive goal to achieve: to win the German Cup and to own a giant party with the BVB fans. I thank all the folks from the bottom of my heart for the howlingtime in black-and-yellow.”

Bayern have already won the Bundesliga this season but lost their Champions League semi-final against AtléticoSpanish capital. The coach, Pep Guardiola, will leave the club in the summer and get replaced by Carlo Ancelotti.