As we enter the final two weeks of the domestic season, it’s natural that transfer rumours ramp up ahead of the summer.
It’s expected that we’ll see a busy transfer window at Manchester City after an under par season, where the best they can hope for now is finishing in the UEFA Champions League places and beating Crystal Palace to win the FA Cup this weekend.
Kevin de Bruyne will definitely leave when his contract expires, and Kyle Walker and Kalvin Phillips are highly unlikely to represent City again when their loans finish this summer.
The likes of Jack Grealish, John Stones, Ederson, Nathan Ake, Bernardo Silva, Mateo Kovacic and James McAtee could follow them out the door, as City look to both trim and freshen up their squad.
And in the last 48 hours (after a very disappointing 0-0 draw against relegated Southampton) City have been linked to numerous targets in midfield.
Morgan Gibbs-White, Florian Wirtz and Tijjani Reijnders have been confirmed by numerous sources to be serious targets for the Blues this summer.
I don’t think City will sign all three, but at the same time, I wouldn’t be hugely surprised if they did.
City need to reduce numbers but if, for example, Grealish, Bernardo and McAtee were to follow De Bruyne out of the door and the three main targets were to be signed, it would succeed in improving the squad too.
The Blues are battling with Vincent Kompany’s Bayern Munich over Wirtz’s signature, and whilst things looked bleak a few days ago when a deal with Bayern had reportedly been agreed, the latest news from all sources suggests that the German international and his parents were in England on Tuesday to negotiate a potential deal and look around City’s training facilities.
