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Manchester City will attack the signing of the Galician midfielder in these last hours of the winter market.
Manchester City's defeat at the Emirates Stadium will have consequences. Pep Guardiola's team fell resoundingly at the hands of Arsenal (5-1) and practically said goodbye to their chances of defending the Premier League title. The Mancunians are now fifteen points behind Liverpool, the league leaders, with the aggravating factor that the 'reds' have a game in hand. The league title is a utopia for the 'sky blue'.
The Etihad's offices are working against the tide to further strengthen the squad in this winter transfer window. City have a crucial tie against Real Madrid in the Champions League round of 32 and the idea of Guardiola and the club's directors is to face it with the maximum possible guarantees. Pep has asked for signings actively and passively and has seen his requests satisfied halfway, since no high-level midfielder capable of replacing an irreplaceable piece like Rodrigo Hernández has been signed. Vítor Reis and Khusanov, two of the winter signings, are a melon to be opened, while Omar Marmoush is called to be an important tool in attack, after what he demonstrated at Eintracht Frankfurt.
That being the case, Manchester City will attack these last hours of the winter transfer market, which closes at midnight, and the main idea is to reinforce themselves with a defensive pivot, with good feet and size, who is capable of generating play and arriving from the second line. The name marked in red is that of Nico González, a youth player of FC Barcelona, who plays for Porto.
City are in negotiations with the Portuguese, with Villas-Boas and Andoni Zubizarreta as the main representatives of the Portuguese delegation. The asking price is 60 million euros, a figure that the English are trying to lower, although Porto do not intend to reduce it by a single euro. Remember that the 'dragons' will have to pay 40% of the price of the player to Barcelona - around 24 million euros - which maintains that percentage of the transfer of the Galician.
According to Fabrizio Romano, Nico Gonzalez will be a new Manchester City player in the next few hours. The Galician midfielder arrives after the full payment of the termination clause of 60 million euros, a luxury reinforcement for Guardiola in the second half of the season.
Porto have allowed the player to travel to Manchester to complete the final paperwork and undergo a medical for his transfer. It is only a matter of hours before his signing is finally official.
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