Bayern Munich News: Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur leading on Leon Goretzka

London’s two biggest clubs have emerged as the early front-runners to prise Leon Goretzka away from Bayern Munich this summer, with Inter Milan and Bayer Leverkusen struggling to match the Germany midfielder’s wage expectations.

Sources close to the negotiations say the Nerazzurri and the Bundesliga runners-up have already sounded out the 29-year-old’s camp, yet both accept that assembling a financial package commensurate with Goretzka’s current terms at the Allianz Arena is proving problematic. That salary impasse has shifted momentum firmly towards the Premier League, where Arsenal and Tottenham are best placed to satisfy the player’s remuneration demands while also offering Champions League football.

Goretzka, whose combative presence and late runs into the box have made him a mainstay for club and country, has two years remaining on his Bayern deal. Although the Bavarian giants have not actively placed him on the market, sporting director Max Eberl is understood to be open to restructuring the squad after a trophyless campaign, and the former Schalke man is among the high-earners whose futures could be reviewed.

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has long admired Goretzka’s versatility, viewing him as the ideal profile to add physicality and goals from midfield to a young Gunners engine room that sometimes lacked ruthlessness in the title run-in. Spurs, meanwhile, see the German as a potential marquee acquisition to anchor Ange Postecoglou’s high-tempo system, replacing the departed Pierre-Emile Højbjerg with a proven elite-level operator.

Neither North London club has yet submitted a formal bid, but intermediaries have been told that a package in the region of €45 million would be enough to trigger serious discussions with Bayern hierarchy. With Leverkusen’s budget capped by their self-sustaining model and Inter constrained by Serie A’s tax regulations, Arsenal and Tottenham currently occupy the driver’s seat in what could become one of the summer’s most protracted transfer tussles.

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