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Pep Guardiola is planning a £120m January move after privately admitting Manchester City’s summer blunder and identifying ‘four areas of concern’.
Manchester City have made complete hash of their latest Premier League title defense as the champions sit in 10th place. Premier League form table And overall not much better in 2024/25.
Two wins from 14 games has left them 14 points behind leaders Liverpool, who have played a game more than the Reds, while they are barely in the Champions League knockout stage play-offs.
Thus ambitious plans for the January transfer window have been drawn up. In an attempt to salvage their season as Guardiola ‘needs more numbers to accept’ in light of the injury crisis, despite preferring to work with a smaller squad.
Guardiola and outgoing sporting director Txiki Bigerstein are ‘keen to address three or four areas of concern’. The Daily Mailwho claim the club will focus on recruiting in ‘central midfield, back and forward’ in the next transfer windows.
At that time, the whole team aside except the goalkeeper.
Two players have been named as options: Frankfurt striker Omar Marmos and Atalanta midfielder Ederson.
In the case of marmos, A popular target for Arsenal and Liverpool For whom Nottingham Forest rejected bids in the summer, Manchester City praise his ‘usage’ and 18 goals and 12 assists in 24 games for a team behind only Bayern Munich and Leverkusen in the Bundesliga. The record cannot be damaged.
Ederson’s ‘energy’ has been touted as a particular quality, with the two-cap international potentially capable of energizing a cracking midfield.
Both are 25 years old and will fill an obvious gap in the squad: Manchester City’s first team consists of nine players aged 30 or over and 22 or under, with only Phil Foden, Erling Holland, Matthias Nunes, Ruben Dias and Rodry are included. A more common prime age of 24-28.
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But Guardiola realizes that signing either Marmos or Ederson ‘will be no easy feat in the middle of the campaign’, especially with Frankfurt fighting for Champions League qualification and Serie A side Atalanta. , looking to secure their first top-flight title.
It has been reported elsewhere that the two players will cost at least £50million, but Guardiola has admitted that any new face would at least work to freshen up the place.
In terms of defensive targets, Abdulkadir Khasanov has emerged as an option but was previously seen as a move that would be made in the summer.
An ongoing battle with injuries has seen Manchester City ‘consider acceleration plans’ and weigh up a January bid, however, if Manchester Evening News. to believe.
Khushnov, the 18-cap Uzbekistan international centre-half, has impressed for Lens this season and is valued at around £20million.
