De Bruyne is expected to sign a six-year deal worth £140,000-a-week and a £45m fee will change hands.
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But his form last season, as he emerged from the fringes of the White Hart Lane squad to score 31 goals and make his Three Lions debut, marked him down as one of the most exciting young strikers in the Premier League.
But sporting director Klaus Allofs admits his head has been turned by the £200,000-a-week on offer from City and interest from Paris St Germain. “With all due respect for Manchester City, it would be different if Real Madrid, Barcelona or Bayern Munich made a move”, he told Kicker.
If all of those players are available against Chelsea you would have to make them favourites against the Blues, particularly after the west Londoners stuttering start on Saturday where they were held by Swansea City.
Wolfsburg coach Dieter Hecking is confident De Bruyne will stay at the club, though, and he believes the forward can do better than a move to City, per FourFourTwo: “I expect Kevin to stay”.
Het Laatste Nieuws reported last month that Wolfsburg were open to a sale as the funds could then be reinvested in the squad, and it was suggested elsewhere that they had therefore set a deadline for De Bruyne to decide his future.
“We are waiting to discover whether any agreement has been reached between the clubs”. “But I know that this is a part of it all”.
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Allofs said it was normal for a player to be swayed by the money on offer.
