Bayern Munich Trigger Kingsley Coman Option to Secure Transfer from Juventus

Bayern Munich have exercised their right to buy on-loan Juventus midfielder Kingsley Coman, who will sign for the club on a three-year contract.

News that the Frenchman, 20, will permanently join Bayern was announced by the club on Twitter:

Coman joined the German champions on a two-season loan deal from Juventus for £5 million in August 2015 with an option to buy the player for £16 million, per the BBC. And with only a few days left to complete the deal before this clause expires, as Bayern pointed out on their website, the fee is to be paid to the Italian club.

The Frenchman has only started eight Bundesliga games this season for Bayern and is yet to start a Champions League match in 2016-17, although this is partly because of a long-term knee injury suffered in November.

The 20-year-old's decision to sign for Bayern regardless of his playing time comes as no surprise. In March, he told TeleFoot (h/t ESPN FC): "I am already at one of the three best clubs in the world, so I would not mind it at all to stay at Bayern my entire career."

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He clearly has a bright future ahead of him. Coman has already been capped 11 times by France and played frequently at Euro 2016, following on from his remarkably successful teenage years. By 19, he had won four league titles in three different countries and won a total of eight major trophies for Paris Saint-Germain, Juventus and Bayern.

Coman will surely add to that tally this campaign, as Bayern sit eight points top of the Bundesliga with eight matches remaining.

His permanent transfer to Munich also puts an end to murmurs of a move to England. Back in March, Manchester City were reportedly interested in capturing Coman when Carlo Ancelotti was rumoured to be uninterested in triggering the option to buy, per David McDonnell for the Mirror.

However, Coman will likely not be moving to England for the time being. The 20-year-old still has plenty to learn, but with veterans Arjen Robben and Frank Ribery at Bayern, he is surely in the best place to continue his development.