The Die Roten director has confirmed that his club are set to approve a reported \u20ac16 million switch to their Bundesliga rivals <\/p>\n
Sebastian Rudy is closing in on a move to Schalke, Bayern Munich chief executive Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has confirmed.<\/p>\n
The midfielder joined Bayern from Hoffenheim in January 2017 but has been pushed down the pecking order by the arrival of Leon Goretzka from Schalke.<\/p>\n
Earlier this month, Schalke sporting director Christian Heidel\u00a0rubbished reports\u00a0Rudy was set to join them.<\/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 But last term’s Bundesliga runners-up will\u00a0soon sign Rudy for a reported\u00a0\u20ac16 million (\u00a314.5m\/$18.7m)\u00a0as a replacement for his fellow Germany international Goretzka.<\/p>\n “I can confirm that Sebastian Rudy has now had his medical examination in Gelsenkirchen,” Rummenigge said.<\/p>\n “If he passes it and the supervisory board approves the deal, then it’s done. I wish him all the best. He’s a great guy, I have to say.”<\/p>\n Rummenigge also followed Bayern president Uli Hoeness in confirming the club will not buy a replacement for Kingsley Coman.<\/p>\n The winger is expected to be out for around three months after undergoing\u00a0surgery on an ankle\u00a0injury sustained in Bayern’s opening Bundesliga win against Hoffenheim on Friday.<\/p>\n “He will be missing for many months. That hurts us,” said Rummenigge.<\/p>\n “But we won’t do anything in this position. With Arjen Robben, Franck Ribery and Serge Gnabry, we have three good players.<\/p>\n “Serge should be available this weekend again. We trust in these three players and don’t plan anything else.”<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Die Roten director has confirmed that his club are set to approve a reported \u20ac16 million switch to their Bundesliga rivals Sebastian Rudy is closing in on a move to Schalke, Bayern Munich chief executive Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has confirmed. The midfielder joined Bayern from Hoffenheim in January 2017 but has been pushed down the…<\/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-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","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=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n