Eric Dier is set to join Monaco as a free agent when his contract at Bayern Munich expires this summer.
The 31-year-old will sign a three-year contract at the Ligue 1 club. Dier joined Bayern in January 2024, initially on a loan deal, after nine-and-a-half seasons at Tottenham Hotspur, where he made 365 appearances.
Having struggled to gain consistent playing time under head coach Vincent Kompany through the first half of 2024-25, Dier’s minutes increased when fellow centre-backs Dayot Upamecano and Hiroki Ito were ruled out for the rest of the season with injury.
Dier, who began his career at Portuguese club Sporting CP, started and played both legs of Bayern’s Champions League quarter-final defeat to Inter earlier in April.
Despite the Champions League exit, Dier is set to win the first silverware of his career with Bayern on the brink of the Bundesliga title — Kompany’s side are eight points clear of second-place Bayer Leverkusen with three league games remaining.
During his time at Spurs, Dier helped the club reach the Champions League final in 2019 and the Carabao Cup final twice but was on the losing side on each occasion.
“The best teammate in the world” – Joshua Kimmich
Dier has been incredibly popular at Bayern. When he first arrived at the club, he quickly became a starter.
Given that he had been out of favour at Tottenham that must have seemed strange, but Thomas Tuchel — Bayern’s head coach at the time — recognised Dier’s ability to bring fresh air to the heart of the defence and help organise a backline which had spent much of the season in disarray.
This season, he has been more peripheral under Vincent Kompany with teammate Kimmich famously referred to him as “the best teammate in the world” on Instagram a few months ago.
Bayern have needed Dier in recent weeks. Upamecano and Ito have both suffered long-term injuries and Kim Min-jae’s form has been volatile. Amid that crisis, Dier has been made to fill that gaps in both the Champions League and the Bundesliga.
He has made 45 appearances in all competitions for Bayern, scoring twice. Dier has also appeared 49 times for England, though his last game for his country came in 2022. The defender was part of the squad at Euro 2016 and the World Cups in 2018 and 2022.
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