Manchester City hopes to complete a day -to -day deal for Porto Nikos Gonzalez.
Talks were considered to be ongoing between clubs on Monday on the transfer end.
Sky Sports news The city, which lost 5-1 to Arsenal on Sunday, did not want to meet the release clause of £ 50 million £ 50m.
Gonzalez has been included in the Porto team to face Rio Ave on Monday night.
Man City has already spent £ 130 million on this transport window, bringing Omar Marmoush, Abdukodir Khusanov and Vitor Reis.
The city has explored their market choices for a new No. 6 with the former Aston Villa Douglas Luiz, one of the many mediums they have examined.
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However, Gonzalez could now be on his way to the Etihad Stadium, as the city seems to continue the outbreak of January.
The 23 -year -old joined the Barcelona Academy in 2013 and made 27 appearances for the club before entering Porto in an agreement worth € 8.5 million in 2023.
One of the negatives is the fact that Barcelona will be due to 40 % of any fee that received Porto for the Middle.
The Portuguese side also has the ability to buy an additional 20 at any point, reducing Barca’s cut to a possible transfer to 20 %.
A perfect app for Man City?
European football expert Kevin Hatshard on Sky Sports news:
“It is absolute application. It could do a very good job for them.” Pep Guardiola was a fan for him for some time, the city was also good.
“He has been linked to a move to the city since he was a youth player, so he is a truly interesting figure who has matured in Porto. He has taken some steps forward there and could be a very good player.”
Standman Dave speech Sky Sports news:
“It fits perfectly. He came through the Barcelona youth Academy and he is tall. It reminds me a bit of Rodri. There is a similarity there in terms of his size and ball administration.
“Yes, there is a lot of work to do with him, but you are thinking of getting another body in the defensive middle section- the city needs this now. Two?
“He’s a player who can come, play football in the way of Guardiola and evolve. You look at the city window – two central sideways, one of the best attackers in Europe in Omar Marmoush and a defensive midfielder.”
“Negotiations are difficult to pursue the city for Gonzalez”
Ben Ransom of Sky Sports News on the ground of Man City:
“He’s a man city really.
“The middle section was a problem for the city this season, in the absence of the injured Rodri, so Gonzalez fits into the bill.
“Gonzalez’s dad Fran, who was a player for Deportivo, worked in the city academy and city when Nikos was 14 and 16 tried to sign him twice.
“He has now been impressed in Porto for 18 months since his move from Barcelona.
“It’s the move by Barca that really makes this move difficult because the negotiations rotate over the end. The player has a £ 50m issue clause and as he has the Porto wanting to pay fully.
“This is partly because Barcelona has a 40 %sales clause, so it would be enough for any possible remuneration.
“There is also a second item in this deal where Porto can buy half of this fee from Barca for € 6 million” Thus, in essence, they can reduce this expenditure to € 18 million if the city pays the full liberation clause.
“However, the city plays hard balls. They don’t want to meet this valuation as things.
“This agreement is a part of a waiting-and-seeing. A source told me that if the city does not meet the liberation clause the deal would be away and that would be the window of them.
“But this is the day of the deadline for the transfer time and we know the money conversations.
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