Manchester City (hereinafter referred to as Manchester City), which recently won 11 official games, will reinforce the storm in January next year.
Ben Jacobs, a reporter for British media “Team Talk,” reported on the 20th (local time) that Manchester City will make an active move in the upcoming winter transfer market. “The first priority is the recruitment of a new midfielder, but reinforcement must be made in many ways.”
“The two players to watch out for are Bruno Guimarães (27, Newcastle United) and Martin Subimendi (25, Real Sociedad). Adam Worton (Crystal Palace) is also on the radar,” he said. “However, recruiting three players during this season will never be simple.”
In particular, in the case of Guimarães, he was close to transferring to Manchester City this summer. At the time, Manchester City offered a transfer fee of £70 million (about KRW 127.7 billion), and Newcastle, which had to comply with the Premier League Financial Regulations (PSR), failed when they sold Yankuba Minte (Brighton and Hove Albion) and Elliott Anderson (Nottingham Forest).
It is no exaggeration to say that Guimarães is the best defensive midfielder in the Premier League at this point in time. Guimarãois, who made his professional debut in his own league Cluby Atlechuku Paranáense in 2017, went to Olang Peak Lyon and settled in Newcastle in 2022 with 18 goals and 20 assists in 127 games.
Subimendi is well known for refusing to transfer to Liverpool at the end of the summer transfer market. Liverpool launched a 60 million euro buyout (release clause) but Subimendi decided to stay in Sociedad after weeks of deliberation. As he has the nickname of “the second roadie (Man City),” if he recruits him, it will be a perfect reinforcement. 스포츠토토
For Manchester City, the key is the transfer fee. Manchester City, which is on trial for failing to comply with the Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules, is unable to invest an astronomical amount of money as usual. The second-place candidate, Worton, is demanding a transfer fee of at least 60 million pounds (about 109.4 billion won) from Palace. Furthermore, the transfers of Ederson and Kyle Walker are also likely to require careful budget allocation as they have to search for a replacement.