{"id":583644,"date":"2021-02-14T07:04:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T12:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=583644"},"modified":"2021-02-14T07:04:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T12:04:27","slug":"bayern-munich-confirm-dayot-upamecano-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/02\/14\/bayern-munich-confirm-dayot-upamecano-signing\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayern Munich Confirm Dayot Upamecano Signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/bayern-munich\/\" target=\"_self\">Bayern Munich<\/a> have confirmed the signing of RB Leipzig defender <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/d248cd8f\/Dayot-Upamecano?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dayot Upamecano<\/a>. The European champions have fought off <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/14\/rb-leipzig-resist-dayot-upamecano-sale\/\" target=\"_self\">interest<\/a> from a number of clubs across Europe for the highly-rated Frenchman, who will join the club on 1 July 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The signing also means Bayern have secured a ready-made replacement for Austrian international <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/05439de2\/David-Alaba?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Alaba<\/a>, who is expected to leave the club this summer after rejecting numerous <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/10\/28\/report-latest-contract-talks-between-david-alaba-and-bayern-munich-break-down\/\" target=\"_self\">new contract offers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Bayern Munich Confirm Dayot Upamecano Signing<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u2139\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FCBayern?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#FCBayern<\/a> have agreed to sign Dayot <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Upamecano?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Upamecano<\/a> from 1st July 2021 \ud83e\udd1d<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf0 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/h1HtzEKVDG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/h1HtzEKVDG<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MiaSanMia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#MiaSanMia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udfc6FC Bayern English\ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udfc6 (@FCBayernEN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FCBayernEN\/status\/1360907647948640264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 14, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>RB Leipzig Defender to Join at The End of The Season<\/h3>\n<p>Upamecano rose to prominence on the European scene during RB Leipzig&#8217;s barnstorming run to last season&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/category\/champions-league\/\" target=\"_self\">Champions League<\/a> semi-finals. A series of impressive performances in the competition sparked a race for the 22-year-old&#8217;s signature from a series of clubs in the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/category\/premier-league\/\" target=\"_self\">Premier League<\/a> and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>In truth, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/category\/bundesliga\/\" target=\"_self\">Bundesliga<\/a> leaders Bayern will have known about Upamecano&#8217;s talents since long before then, and have moved early and successfully in order to get their man.<\/p>\n<p>The defender has been a prominent figure in German football for some time, making his Bundesliga debut in the 2015\/16 season for former club Red Bull Salzburg. Upamecano has since gone on to make 139 appearances for current employers Leipzig and has established himself as a centre-back who can also play at right-back and in midfield.<\/p>\n<h3>Upamecano Has Agreed Five-Year Bayern Munich Deal<\/h3>\n<p>Upon announcing his signing, Bayern Munich confirmed that Upamecano has agreed terms on a five-year contract until June 2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/f1366d68\/Hasan-Salihamidzic?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hasan Salihamid\u017ei\u0107<\/a>, the club&#8217;s sporting director, has welcomed the defender to his new club by asserting the importance Upamecano will play in a side that has won each of the last six trophies available to it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fcbayern.com\/en\/news\/2021\/02\/fc-bayern-sign-dayot-upamecano\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Salihamid\u017ei\u0107 said<\/a>: &#8220;We&#8217;re happy that we&#8217;ve been able to sign Dayot Upamecano for FC Bayern M\u00fcnchen. We&#8217;re convinced that Dayot will be a very important member of our team in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p>Upamecano will continue to represent RB Leipzig until the end of the season. Julien Nagelsmann&#8217;s side are second in the Bundesliga and are through to the knockout stages of the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"uavmC4FwTAVt29FyT7HITQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1251016176\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'uavmC4FwTAVt29FyT7HITQ',sig:'lMYaf5n_fV7BqV9nYvI7rLq8lyGF3CgulrdJF_hMnAs=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1251016176',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bayern Munich have confirmed the signing of RB Leipzig defender Dayot Upamecano. The European champions have fought off interest from a number of clubs across Europe for the highly-rated Frenchman, who will join the club on 1 July 2021. The signing also means Bayern have secured a ready-made replacement for Austrian international David Alaba, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3563,"featured_media":583647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1364,4,2,30,28],"tags":[86,942,4085,1297,2857,40,620,136],"class_list":["post-583644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bayern-munich","category-bundesliga","category-featured","category-news","category-transfers","tag-champions-league","tag-david-alaba","tag-dayot-upamecano","tag-football-transfer-news","tag-julien-nagelsmann","tag-premier-league","tag-rb-leipzig","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3563"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}