Connect with us

Manchester United

Man City to make January move for Man Utd target

Manchester City are set to make a €40 million (£35.9m) offer for Barcelona midfielder Sergi Roberto in January, according to reports.

The 25-year-old has been a regular in Ernesto Valverde’s side this season, playing in six of Barcelona’s seven La Liga games (6 starts) to date.

Roberto came through the Catalan club’s famous youth system as a midfielder but has started at right-back four times to start the new season.  His other start in La Liga came in central midfield whilst his sole Champions League start in 2017-18 was as a right midfielder in their 1-0 win at Sporting Club of Portugal.

City boss Pep Guardiola likes his versatile players whilst Sergi Roberto’s buy-out clause of €40 million is cheap by the Premier League club’s standards.

Spanish newspaper Don Balon is reporting that Manchester City will activate Sergi Roberto’s buy-out clause during the January transfer window and that the player himself is unhappy at not being offered a new contract at Camp Nou.

If this is true it could attract the attention of Jose Mourinho as we were strongly linked with a move for the Spaniard during this past summer transfer window.

My question would be whether we really need to splash such a price on Sergi Roberto who would unlikely hold down a regular place in our starting lineup.  Antonio Valencia is one of the best in his position at right-back whilst we are spoiled for choice with options in central midfield when healthy.  To me it sounds like a hefty price for a backup player.

It also remains to be seen whether Sergi Roberto will leave Barcelona in the near future or not.  Given that he is currently a regular in the first team who are already five points clear at the top of La Liga makes you wonder why he’d even consider leaving right now.

Click to comment

You must be logged in to post a comment Login

Leave a Reply