Alphonso Davies, the 17-year-old Vancouver Whitecaps midfielder, is heading to the German soccer club Bayern Munich, multiple media reports say.

Coach Carl Robinson said it would be wrong for the club to stop the rising star B次元官网网址� who was not at training on Tuesday B次元官网网址� from developing his career and talents abroad.

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The deal is not official just yet, though.

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TSN has reported transfer fees could reach as high as US$20 million with bonuses, an amount that would shatter the record price fetched by an Major League Soccer player.

The current record was set in 2008, when Spanish club Villarreal spent $10 million to acquire then-18-year-old striker Jozy Altidore from the New York Red Bulls.

Davies has eight assists and three goals in 20 games with the Whitecaps this season, his third with the team. HeB次元官网网址檚 also scheduled to play in the MLS all-star game next month.

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Davies joined the WhitecapsB次元官网网址� residency program in 2015. He was scouted from Edmonton, where his family settled after emigrating to Canada from a refugee camp in Ghana. He was born in the refugee camp in 2000, after his parents fled the Liberian civil war.

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The coach said he knows Davies will be supported in every aspect of his life and surrounded by the top talent in the world. But that doesnB次元官网网址檛 mean that watching him go will be easy.

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- With files from The Canadian Press

kieran.oconnor@bpdigital.ca
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