{"id":136958,"date":"2019-07-19T20:52:32","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T19:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=136958"},"modified":"2019-07-19T22:02:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T21:02:38","slug":"transfer-guardiola-reveals-player-he-would-love-to-sign-for-man-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=136958","title":{"rendered":"Transfer: Guardiola reveals player he would love to sign for Man City"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, has said he would like to sign a centre-back, ahead of the 2019\/2020 season.<\/p>\n

The Premier League champions have failed to replace Vincent Kompany, after the Belgian decided to quit the Etihad after 10 years, to become player-manager at Anderlecht.<\/p>\n

City are refusing to meet Leicester\u2019s \u00a390million valuation of Harry Maguire, while reports of a possible move for Benfica\u2019s Ruben Dias has been dismissed by club officials.<\/p>\n

That means City could go into the new season with John Stones, Aymeric Laporte, Nicolas Otamendi and youngsters Eric Garcia and Taylor Harwood Bellis.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are so happy with the squad we have.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if the players here will stay or new players will come, but since I came here I have been delighted with the players we have.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe we (will replace Kompany), but we have three incredible central defenders.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd Fernandinho can play in that position, also. We will see,\u201d Guardiola told reporters on their pre-season tour.<\/p>\n

City have so far spent a club-record \u00a363million on Spanish midfielder Rodri and \u00a36million to bring back full-back Angelino from PSV Eindhoven.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, has said he would like to sign a centre-back, ahead of the 2019\/2020 season. The Premier League champions have failed to replace Vincent Kompany, after the Belgian decided to quit the Etihad after 10 years, to become player-manager at Anderlecht. City are refusing to meet Leicester\u2019s \u00a390million valuation of Harry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":136959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[8077,10177],"class_list":["post-136958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-pep-guardiola","tag-transfer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/136959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}