Bayern Munich signed Liverpool winger Luis Díaz to a four-year contract on Wednesday (July 30, 2025) within the German champion’s greatest deal of the offseason up to now.
The transfer balances out Liverpool’s heavy spending with a payment reported at 75 million euros ($87 million) by German media, whereas Bayern dips into the hundreds of thousands it earned on the Club World Cup, a contest Liverpool did not qualify for.
Díaz had been with Liverpool since 2022 and scored 17 objectives in 50 video games throughout all competitions final season because the membership gained the Premier League title.
“From today on I’m part of this lovely family,” Diaz mentioned in Spanish in a video message posted on Bayern’s social media accounts.
Díaz leaves amid Isak hypothesisLiverpool had dismissed speak of the 28-year-old Colombia winger leaving however its strategy shifted when he was ignored of the squad for a preseason pleasant loss to AC Milan on Saturday.
Heavy spending for Liverpool
Diaz’s departure is available in an offseason the place Liverpool has spent closely strengthening a workforce that gained a record-equaling twentieth English league title final time period.
Coach Arne Slot has targeted on his assault with the signings of Florian Wirtz and Hugo Ekitike. Liverpool’s complete spend is round $342 million and there could possibly be extra arrivals earlier than the switch window shuts on Sept. 1.
Isak on Liverpool’s radar
Bayern’s provide seems to have been too good to refuse and will heighten hypothesis that the Premier League champion will transfer for Newcastle forward Alexandar Isak.
Diaz joined Liverpool from Porto for an preliminary 45 million euros ($50 million) in 2022 — changing Sadio Mané, who went to Bayern — and gained the Premier League, FA Cup and two English League Cups in his time at Anfield.
Liverpool’s German connectionGermany has loomed giant in Liverpool’s latest switch enterprise because the membership signed attacking midfielder Wirtz and proper again Jeremie Frimpong from Bayer Leverkusen, plus striker Ekitiké from Eintracht Frankfurt. It additionally bought defender Jarell Quansah to Leverkusen.
It’s the primary huge switch payment paid this offseason by Bayern, which raised cash from promoting striker Mathys Tel to Tottenham and minimize its wage invoice when forwards Thomas Müller and Leroy Sané each left the membership.
Bayern’s signings of defender Jonathan Tah from Leverkusen and younger midfielder Tom Bischof from Hoffenheim solely concerned small sums to make them eligible for the Club World Cup, weeks earlier than they’d have joined anyway as free brokers.
