In crisis, Manchester City plans to strengthen its position on the transfer market this winter. According to the Sunday Times, Pep Guardiola would have drawn up a very ambitious list of five names: Florian Wirtz, Jamal Musiala, Bruno Guimaraes, Martin Zubimendi and Marc Guéhi.
December 25 has passed for a few days but Pep Guardiola is still finalizing his list for Santa Claus. Entangled in a terrible crisis with Manchester City before challenging Leicester this Sunday (follow the match live with commentary on RMC Sport), the Spanish coach would, according to the Times, have ticked off five names for the winter transfer window which begins in a few days: Florian Wirtz, Jamal Musiala, Bruno Guimaraes, Martin Zubimendi and Marc Guéhi.
With only one victory in 13 games, Pep Guardiola is looking for solutions and he has already announced, in recent weeks, that this will not include recruits in January. As the crisis experienced by the Cityzens is notably linked to the serious injury of Rodri, who will not play again for the season, it seems essential to recruit a number 6. The profiles of Zubimendi and Guimaraes point in this direction.
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Delap, Marmousch and Olmo are also possibilities
Florian Wirtz and Jamal Musiala are more offensive profiles to compensate for the glaring lack of creativity from Manchester City in recent weeks. But the British media underline the complexity of finalizing such operations: Leverkusen and Bayern should not open the door to a departure during the season, any more than Newcastle for Guimaraes, while Zubimendi already refused Liverpool last summer .
There remains the case of Marc Guéhi. If Crystal Palace turned down several juicy offers last summer, notably from Newcastle, he is perhaps the most affordable player on the list. For Guardiola, he would strengthen a defensive sector regularly decimated this season with the successive injuries to Ruben Dias, John Stones, Nathan Aké, Manuel Akanji and Kyle Walker.
In addition to this list of five names, the English media are reporting several other avenues: Liam Delap, loaned to Ipswich and who could be recalled; Omar Marmousch, flamboyant with Frankfurt, a club perhaps more likely to agree to sell this winter; and Dani Olmo, potentially blocked by Barcelona’s inability to register his contract. In any case, it will be a rough winter for City.
