'If I had your talent, I'd be Messi' - how former Bayern Munich exec tried to motivate Leroy Sane
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'If I had your talent, I'd be Messi' - how former Bayern Munich exec tried to motivate Leroy Sane
"Former Bayern Munich winger Leroy Sané always ended up with decent statistics during his tenure at the club, but he never quite reached the level of heights predicted for him when he made the long-anticipated move to Bavaria from Manchester City in 2020. Funks and slumps marred Sané's time with Bayern Munich as he failed to achieve consistency. Last summer, the winger moves on to Galatasaray, ending his time with Bayern Munich as a disappointment to many fans."
""With Leroy, we always had this issue," Kahn said on the Sky Germany show Triple - der Hagedorn-Fussballtalk (as captured by BuLiNews). "I told him, 'If I had your talent, I'd be Messi.' He just looked at me with big eyes. He didn't really know what to say. So, I told him, just go out and show it. And that's what it's about - reaching a player like that and making him capable of performing.""
Leroy Sané produced respectable statistics at Bayern Munich but failed to reach the elite heights expected after his 2020 transfer from Manchester City. Periods of form inconsistency and recurring slumps prevented sustained impact, and he departed for Galatasaray last summer with many fans viewing his Bayern tenure as a disappointment. Club coaches, teammates, and executives repeatedly tried to motivate Sané to deliver more consistently. Former CEO Oliver Kahn publicly compared Sané's talent level to Lionel Messi and urged him to demonstrate it on the pitch. Sané's raw ability remained unquestioned, but he never combined talent, consistency, and performance at Bayern.
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