BERLIN - German league leaders Bayern Munich Tuesday confirmed they are negotiating with Borussia Dortmund's defender and club captain Mats Hummels. Should he sign for Bayern for next season, Hummels would be the third big-name Dortmund star to quit Borussia for Munich in the last three years after Mario Goetze in 2013 and Robert Lewandowski in 2014.
Dortmund's CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke has already said he expects Hummels to join Bayern for next season, even though his Borussia contract runs until June 2017. "Basically, I can confirm what Mr Watzke has said; Mats is dealing with Bayern," chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said as the Munich club jetted off for Wednesday's Champions League semifinal first leg at Atletico Madrid. "But every transfer is a three-way business, so we have to wait calmly.”