DBasia.news – Manchester City continues to grow rapidly under the tutelage of Pep Guardiola. At domestic and European levels, Man City showed offensive performance and entertained the audience.
Although in the inaugural season Guardiola failed to present the title and only drove his team to finish in third place, in the second season, Kevin de Bruyne and his friends managed to win the League Cup and Premier League.
Now in the 2018/19 season, they have managed to defend the League Cup title and potentially win the Premier League again. While in the Champions League, The Citizens have advanced to the quarter-finals and will soon challenge one of its strongest rivals, Tottenham Hotspur.
Despite appearing consistent and strengthened by a number of quality players in the squad, this did not stop the club from increasing the strength of its squad. Even the club, which since 2008 was acquired by the Abu Dhabi United Group (ADUG), has begun to plan for the 2019 summer transfer market.
Now according to ESPN reports, City is claimed to be soon to get the signature of one of Atletico Madrid’s star, Saul Niguez. City allegedly took this step because Guardiola thought if Saul was the right successor of Fernandinho who was now 33 years old.
The opportunity for the 24-year-old player to leave the Etihad is also increasingly wide open, according to a source, although Saul is still one of Diego Simeone’s mainstay players, on the other hand, the player also really wants to leave Wanda Metropolitano.
Saul Niguez joined Atleti in 2008 and first strengthened the junior squad. Four years later the player born in El Che, Spain was promoted to the main squad and until now has played in 308 matches with a notch 40 goals and 19 assists in all competitions.
Saul is not the only Los Rojiblancos player who is on Pep Guardiola’s shopping list, other than himself, the former Barcelona manager is also rumored to want to recruit Thomas Partey.