The Bundesliga champions have been strongly linked with a move for the France international as the club look for summer reinforcements <\/p>\n
Benjamin Pavard has urged his France international team-mate Lucas Hernandez to join him at Bayern Munich this summer.<\/p>\n
Pavard has his transfer to Bayern from Stuttgart arranged for a fee of \u20ac35 million (\u00a330m\/$40m) and hopes to be joined in Munich by Hernandez.<\/p>\n
Bayern have been linked heavily with Hernandez and Pavard is excited at the prospect of linking up with the Atletico Madrid full-back at club level.<\/p>\n
Article continues below<\/span> <\/p>\n Juve on alert: Exiled Icardi may have already played his final game for Inter Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea & Pedro impress in Spurs win Magnificent Mane takes centre stage as league leaders Liverpool put on a five-star show Lukaku sends reminder that his Man Utd career is far from over <\/p>\n “We are very good friends and I think it would be fantastic if Lucas also came to Bayern,” Pavard told\u00a0SportBild<\/em>.<\/p>\n “He proved that he is a great player, first together for France, then for Bayern – that would make me proud,” he added.\u00a0At the same time, however, Pavard admitted that this was “a matter between Bayern and Lucas,”<\/p>\n Hernandez and Pavard both played key roles as France won the World Cup last summer. with the two full-backs running either flank as Les Bleus lifted the trophy for the second time.<\/p>\n Hernandez has a release clause of \u20ac80m (\u00a369m\/$91m) in his Atletico contract which runs until 2024 and, if Bayern were to trigger this, it would smash their current transfer record of \u20ac41m (\u00a335m\/$47m) for the signing of Corentin Tolisso.<\/p>\n Bayern president Uli Hoeness has not been coy about the fact the club\u00a0are chasing Hernandez’s signature, saying that the German champions would pay an astronomical fee for the defender.<\/p>\n “If we could get someone like Lucas Hernandez, we would pay so much,” Hoeness told SportBild<\/em>.<\/p>\n Hernandez can be deployed as either a left-back or a centre-back and, with Bayern lacking depth in those positions, he would be the perfect signing for Niko Kovac’s side.<\/p>\n Aged just 22 and 23 respectively, the signings of Pavard and Hernandez could see their back line solidified for the next decade.<\/p>\n According to Bayern’s sporting director,\u00a0Hasan Salihamidzic, the club have already had constructive discussions with Atletico regarding the transfer of the Frenchman<\/p>\n Salihamidzic is\u00a0quoted\u00a0in\u00a0SportPicture as saying: “We have had good discussions, and more will come.”<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Bundesliga champions have been strongly linked with a move for the France international as the club look for summer reinforcements Benjamin Pavard has urged his France international team-mate Lucas Hernandez to join him at Bayern Munich this summer. Pavard has his transfer to Bayern from Stuttgart arranged for a fee of \u20ac35 million (\u00a330m\/$40m)…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n