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Bayern president Franz Beckenbauer confirmed the 26-year-old would be leaving the club for a fee of around £17million after a season-long pursuit by the Premiership champions.

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Premiership-bound: Bayern's England midfielder Owen Hargreaves

"Owen Hargreaves will go," Beckenbauer told the DFB-Doppelpass programme on German TV on Sunday. "It's also the wish of the player.

"Everything is right and it is also financially right," continued Beckenbauer.

Asked if reports about the size of the fee were true, he said: "It will be around that size."

The Canada-born midfield anchorman represented hometown club Calgary Foothills FC from 1994 to 1997 and had been contracted to Bayern until 2010.

His breakthrough year was 2001 when he starred in the Bayern team that won the Champions League, the Intercontinental Cup and the Bundesliga.

Hargreaves won many admirers for his performances in what was an otherwise disappointing performance by England in last year's World Cup.

Hargreaves missed Bayern Munich's 5-2 win over Energie Cottbus because of a knee injury, so it looks like he has already played his last game for the club after 10 years.

He has played a total of 145 league games and featured as Bayern won the Champions League in 2001.