How Alphonso Davies' move to Bayern Munich almost fell through | OneFootball

Alphonso Davies has burst on to the scene this season at Bayern Munich and quickly become one of the first names on their team sheet.

The Canada international filled in for the injured Lucas Hernandez back in October and in the space of a few months has grown to be considered arguably the best left-back in Europe.

But it almost wasn’t to be, as his agent revealed to The Provenance newspaper on Thursday.

British-based agent Neil Sang had tried to connect Bayern wit Davies and his representative Nick Househ, but things got a little strange.

“He reached out to (Bayern); they connected and he told me they were interested,” Househ told the paper.

“(But) after a couple of months, that communication between him and Bayern Munich broke down.

“I asked him a couple of times a day ‘what’s going on with Bayern Munich?’ He said, ‘Yeah, they stopped contacting me back.’

“The next thing we know, Bayern Munich has put in an offer to buy Alphonso.”

But when it came down to the final negotiations, his club Vancouver Whitecaps got greedy and almost threw a spnner into the works.

Bayern had negotiated a transfer fee of €11.3m with the Whitecaps but by the rules of the MLS CBA, 10% of the transfer fee of any player being transferred outside the league is to be given to the player.

The Whitecaps were having none of that.

“It’s unfortunate, because the club shows Phonzie a lot of love publicly and on social-media — which is great — but when it came to showing him some real love for all the hard work he did, they fell short,” he said.

“It was disappointing when Alphonso was asked to waive the 10 per cent that he was entitled to or the Bayern deal wouldn’t have happened. The Bayern guys, you’re dealing with people who know the ins (and outs).

“Dealing with them was completely … day and night between them and the Whitecaps.”