After lifting the European Cup ban, Manchester City wants to pump fresh money into the squad. Main goal of the six-time English champion: Bavaria’s defensive all-rounder David Alaba.
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Manchester City Bayern Munich has defenders David Alaba identified as the main goal of the summer transfer window. At least that’s what the British daily “The Guardian” reports. According to the club, after the lifting of the two-year European ban, over 165 million euros from its owners, the ruling family Abu Dhabis, received to further strengthen the squad.
Guardiola: Citys left “Achilles tendon”
The team around coach Pep Guardiola be willing to contract a large part of this amount into the transfer fee of the by the summer of 2021 FC Bayern to invest bound Alaba. The Catalan success coach and the Austrian international worked together between 2013 and 2016 in the German record champions.
According to information from the “Guardian”, Guardiola identified the defense as Manchester City’s Achilles tendon in his seasonal analysis. The “Sky Blues” are three games before the end of the Premier League 21 points behind the already crowned champion FC Liverpool in second place. Alaba, who can act as a full-back as well as a central defender, should give the team new defensive stability and thus make the title race more balanced again.
Guardiola’s will to strengthen the quality of the defense can also be seen in the alternative transfer goal, which he has identified according to “Guardian”: Should Alaba fail, the former captain of FC Barcelona wants world-class center-back Kalidou Koulibaly from SSC Naples lose iron. The Senegalese still has a contract with the Italians until summer 2023. A transfer fee would probably level off above Koulibaly’s market value of EUR 56 million.
