He Manchester City de Pep Guardiola It continues to be one of the most active equipment in the signing market. The set citizen prepare your Sixth incorporation of this window, with more than a month ahead for the closure. It is about goalkeeper James Trafford, Manchester City quarry that was discarded by the team in 2023. the new signing of the skyblues It came out transferred to Burnley in 2023, Freshly promoted team to the Premier from which he now returns in exchange for 30 million euros.
With the return of the canterano, the City approaches the barrier of the 200 million spending on signings. In the absence of official confirmation in operation Trafford, the team that directs Pep Guardiola has invested 145.7 million euros in a summer market in which it has added to the cause to Reijnders (55 million, Milan), Nouri (36.8 million, Wolverhampton), Cherki (36.5 millions, Olympic in Lyon), NYPA (15 million, Rosenborg) and Bettinelli (2.4 million, Chelsea). In sales, on the other hand, citizens have only entered 33 million for the transfers of Yan Couto and Perrone.
A disbursement, which With Trafford it will reach 175 million euroswhich adds to the remarkable investment made by Manchester City in the last winter market. The bad results in the Champions League League phase and in Premier caused the skyblues They urgently attend a window in which prices usually shoot. As proof of this, the 212 million that spent on the signings of Marmoush (75 million, Frankfurt Eintracht), Nico González (60 million, port), Khusanov (40 million, Lens) and Vitor Reis (37, Palmeiras).
🚨🔵 Plan confirmed for James Trafford; medical tests to take place on Monday at Manchester City, then signing five year deal at the club.
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The new additions helped in the domestic competition, in which they ended in third position. The collapse arrived in Champions, where they fell clearly (6-3) against Real Madrid In the playoff. The last disappointment of Manchester City occurred in the Club World Cup. He Saudi Arabia won them 4-3 in the extensiontaking advantage of a bonus in goal and the poor ederson performance In the rival goal. With the incorporation of Trafford, confirmed by Fabrizio Romano and officer in the next few days, Guardiola seeks a transition in the goal before the possible exit of Ederson.
Earned by Palmer and Verdugo de España
One of the most important moments of the short career of the new Manchester City signing occurred before the Spanish Sub-21 team. In the European final of this category, Trafford arrested a penalty at the last minute that the draw on the score would have supposed. The goalkeeper's stop gave the title to the England of Cole Palmer. The Chelsea player has been one of Trafford's main courage, whom he knows of his passage through the Manchester City quarry. «I have always told him, even when we were small, that It will be the best in the world», Said Palmer.
