Jerome Boateng is on the verge of returning to Bayern Munich just a week after a court verdict for assault and insult was overturned.
The defender only left the Allianz Arena back in 2021 following a hugely successful decade in Bavaria. He joined French side Lyon on a free transfer.
According to reports in Germany, an emotional return to Bayern is now on the cards for Boateng. As per Sky Deutschland, Bayern bosses want to sign the 35-year-old, who is currently without a club. Advanced talks are reported to have taken place between the two parties, with Boateng fit and ready to return.
A Munich court found Boateng guilty of assaulting his ex-girlfriend in September 2021, charges which he denied. He was eventually handed a 60-day sentence of daily fines accounting for around €1.8 million (£1.5m).
That was appealed, with the punishment then being changed to 120 days worth of fines totalling €1.2 million (£1.04m). Under German law, a person is considered to have a criminal record with fines totalling more than 90 days.
That decision was appealed, with an appeals court in Bavaria overturning the verdict and thus moving the case back to a lower court. Bavaria’s Supreme State Court allowed appeals from both Boateng, who alleged bias by the trial judge, and prosecutors.
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