City offered De Bruyne four times his wages, says Allofs

Wolfsburg director Klaus Allofs has revealed that Kevin
De Bruyne earns four times as much at Manchester
City as he did in the Bundesliga.

Klaus Allofs has stressed that it was impossible for Wolfsburg to
hold on to Kevin De Bruyne after Manchester City offered the
Belgian four times the wages he earned at the Bundesliga club.

Wolfsburg were desperate to keep De Bruyne in the transfer
window, but eventually opted to allow him to move on after all
when City met their asking price of around £55million.

And the Bundesliga club's sporting director Allofs told Die Welt:

"We spent a long time weighing up all our options and trying to
keep Kevin at Wolfsburg. But at some point, we reached the
conclusion that it would be best to allow him to move.

"When a player has an offer from another team where can make
four times as much money, you have to take into account what
such an offer does to a player.

"Kevin received an offer that could very well be a once in a
lifetime opportunity. There is no guarantee that he would ever
get such a offer again.

"We have certain limits that teams like Manchester City, Paris
Saint-Germain, Barcelona or Bayern Munich do not have. It is
totally unrealistic to claim that nobody can lure players away
from us."

De Bruyne has netted twice in three Premier League
appearances since his move to the Etihad Stadium.