Liverpool have agreed to sell Luis Díaz to Bayern Munich in a deal worth up to €75m (£65.5m), bringing an end to one of the summer’s longest-running transfer sagas.
The 28-year-old winger has been given permission to leave Liverpool’s pre-season training camp in Tokyo, and has travelled to Munich to complete a medical and finalise his transfer as a Bayern Munich player.
The agreement, which includes performance-related add-ons, will make Díaz Bayern’s marquee signing of the summer and one of Liverpool’s most expensive outgoing transfers of all-time, behind only Philippe Coutinho and Luis Suárez. Once his medical is completed, the Colombian international is set to sign a four-year deal until 2029 with the Bundesliga champions.
Bayern boss Vincent Kompany had made Díaz a long-term target and were forced to pay what the English champions demanded as fair market value. Díaz was keen for the move, having first indicated last summer that he was open to a transfer, but Liverpool did everything in their power to retain the 28-year-old, ultimately failing to find an agreement on a contract extension.
Although the Colombian revealed his desire to leave the club, he stayed to play a crucial role in Liverpool’s 2024–25 Premier League title-winning campaign, scoring 17 goals in all competitions, including 13 in the league.
Liverpool rejected Bayern’s initial advances insisting Diaz was not for sale, but as talks intensified over the last few weeks the Germans returned with a second offer of £65.5m including add-ons, which the club couldn’t refuse. Bayern view Díaz as the ideal successor to Leroy Sané, who recently departed for Galatasaray.
The breakthrough in negotiations came just days after Díaz was left out of Liverpool’s 4-2 defeat to AC Milan in Hong Kong — the first clear indication that his Anfield chapter was nearing its conclusion. The winger had been training normally all week but, speaking to the media, head coach Arne Slot confessed he took the decision to omit him from the squad as talks with Bayern intensified.
“In Lucho’s [Díaz’s] situation it was linked to his future, yeah.
There are a lot of rumours around it lately and I cannot go into that. But he is training really well with us and we have decided, for now, not to play him yet.
Yes, I’ve spoken to him. I talk to most of my players on a regular basis. Lucho is training really well but we’ve decided that he is best not playing at the moment in the games and I cannot comment much more than that. Does he want to leave? I am not the person to ask.”
Díaz made 148 appearances for Liverpool, scoring 41 goals and providing 23 assists. His honours at the club include a Premier League title, two League Cups and an FA Cup.
The sale of Díaz will take Liverpool’s total transfer income to around £190m since Richard Hughes took over as sporting director in June 2024, underlining the significant changes being made to the squad this summer.
Ahead of Liverpool’s final pre-season friendly in Asia against Yokohama F. Marinos on Wednesday, Díaz was part of the squad’s visit a 1,000-year-old Buddhist temple in Tokyo. However, he has since left the camp and arrived in Germany to finalise his £65.5m move to the Bundesliga champions.
Barring any late complications, Díaz will undergo a medical in Munich before signing a contract until 2029, bringing an end to his three-and-a-half-year stay at Anfield.
