Having accumulated titles in Portugal and England, the end Colombian Luis Díaz now lands in Germany by the hand of Bayern Munichwhich made official this Wednesday his great commitment to this signing market.
Newly proclaimed Champion of England with the Liverpool‘Lucho’ Díaz, 28, has signed until 2029 with the current champion of Germany, for an amount of € 75 million ($ 88 million) according to the German and English press, which makes Barranquilla’s into the third most expensive signing in the history of the Bavarian giant.
Only the English ram Harry Kane (110 million dollars in 2023) and the French defense Lucas Hernandez (93 million dollars in 2019) exceed the amount that Bayern has invested in this movement.
“Luis Díaz is a player with international experience, of enormous quality, tremendous skills and great reliability. He will help our team immediately,” says Max Eberl, sports director of Bayern Munich, cited in a statement.
Luis Díaz comes from signing its most fruitful season in Liverpool (17 goals and 8 assists), participating in the achievement of the 20th English Club Championship.
“I am very happy, it means a lot to me to be part of FC Bayern, it is one of the largest clubs in the world (…) My goal is to win all possible titles,” said the Colombian in the statement.
Third Colombian Bayern
In his three and a half years in Liverpool he has played mainly at the end, a position in which he had the Dutch Gakpo as competition, and occasionally he has occupied the center of the attack.
In Munich, Díaz should occupy the left side of offensive animation, with the French Kingsley eat as the main rival for ownership.
International since September 2018, Luis Díaz has played 63 games with Colombia, where he is an indisputable holder. This is the third Colombian player in the history of Bayern after ‘The train’ Adolfo Valencia (1993-1994) and especially James Rodríguez (2017-2019).
The player of the Junior of Barranquilla made the leap to Europe by the hand of Porto, a club with which he debuted in 2019, and with which he proclaimed himself champion of the Portuguese League, the Cup and the Portugal Super Cup in his first season.
Two years later the 2021-2022 course started with spectacular figures, scoring 14 goals in 18 championship games (16 goals in 25 games among all competitions).
South American template
In the Champions League Group Phase of that year he crossed with Liverpool, a club that took the coffee services in January 2022 for 49 million euros (57 million dollars). He left the dragons in northern Portugal after 125 games and 41 goals, and already as a player of the Reds, he received the medals of the League champion and the 2022 Portuguese Cup.
While the fruits of his great campaign in Porto arrived by mail, Luis Díaz continued to expand his record in England: in his first months in Anfield he proclaimed champion of the England Cup and the League Cup, in addition to playing the champions League final against Real Madrid.
In October of that same year he suffered a knee injury that kept him section practically the entire 2022-2023 course. Under the baton of Jurgen Klopp he would win another League Cup in 2024 and already under the orders of Arne Slot he proclaimed premiere champion last May.
In total, England leaves after having played 148 games and scored 41 goals among all competitions.
In Germany, in addition to the sports challenge, he will have to overcome a cultural leap: unlike in Liverpool, where he shared costumes with Uruguay
