The World Cup-winning defender appeared set to make a move to France at one stage this summer, but he will now be staying at the Allianz Arena <\/p>\n
Jerome Boateng has admitted to holding \u201cinteresting\u201d talks with Paris Saint-Germain, but has no complaints at having seen Bayern Munich block a move to France.<\/p>\n
It appeared at one stage as though a switch to Parc des Princes was on the cards for the experienced defender.<\/p>\n
After returning from a disappointing 2018 World Cup campaign with Germany, the 29-year-old saw interest in his services build steadily.<\/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 PSG were prepared to invest in a proven performer, with Boateng open to taking on a new challenge in Ligue 1.<\/p>\n He has now revealed how close he came to making a switch, telling WELT<\/em>: “There were talks with Paris, that’s no secret.<\/p>\n “The project there was interesting, the talks with Thomas Tuchel were good.\u00a0<\/p>\n “That does not mean that I’m not committed to Bayern anymore.\u00a0I have big goals and will continue to do everything for the club.\u00a0As I have always done.”<\/p>\n It has been suggested that PSG walked away from a deal after seeing Bayern raise their asking price.<\/p>\n The French giants were prepared to do business at terms which made sense to them, with Financial Fair Play regulations in mind, but could not justify a \u20ac50 million (\u00a345m\/$58m) spend.<\/p>\n A number of leading figures at Bayern have, as a result, expressed a belief that Boateng will be going nowhere before transfer windows across Europe slam shut on Friday.<\/p>\n That means that the 2014 World Cup winner will remain at the Allianz Arena and continue working under a contract that is due to run until 2021.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The World Cup-winning defender appeared set to make a move to France at one stage this summer, but he will now be staying at the Allianz Arena Jerome Boateng has admitted to holding \u201cinteresting\u201d talks with Paris Saint-Germain, but has no complaints at having seen Bayern Munich block a move to France. It appeared at…<\/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-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","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=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n