MANCHESTER -- Pep Guardiola has said he tried to sign both Leroy Sane and Kevin De Bruyne when he was in charge at Bayern Munich.
The Manchester City manager left Bayern at the end of the 2016 season to move to the Etihad Stadium, where De Bruyne had been signed from Wolfsburg a year earlier, and made Schalke's Sane one of his first signings.
Both have become key players for City, but Guardiola refuted recent suggestions in Germany that he left Bayern because of a disagreement with the board, stressing that he had never fallen out with them over transfer dealings.