After months of speculation, Bayern have agreed a deal to sign RB Leipzig defender Dayot Upamecano for next season.
The newly crowned FIFA Club World Cup champions will pay the €42.5 million release clause for 22-year-old, who is expected to sign a five-year deal.
"I can do that, and we are very happy about it at FC Bayern," Salihamidzi told Bild when asked to confirm reports about the defender.
"We had very good, intensive and professional discussions with Dayot and his advisor Volker Struth for many months. We knew that we had very strong competition.
"Upamecano is a young player, 22, whose qualities have already developed extraordinarily. I was always convinced that we had presented a good concept.
"We presented him with our vision of his career at Bayern. During the past week in Doha I had further talks with everyone involved. At the end of a long process, the players, family and management were convinced that FC Bayern was the right club.
"Dayot Upamecano will play for Bayern for the next five years."
