Pep Guardiola Interested in Recruiting Marcos Llorente

DBasia.news –  Rarely playing at Real Madrid, Marcos Llorente, linked to Manchester City. Pep Guardiola, City manager, observed him and considered Llorente could develop under his direction.

Real Madrid have done several ways to improve Marcos Llorente’s performance including loaning him to Alaves in the 2016-2017 season. At that time, the player appeared in 32 matches.

However, after returning to playing for Madrid last season, Marcos Llorente did not get enough minutes of play. He only showed off in 13 LaLiga matches. Meanwhile, this season the situation has not changed much.

The marginalization of Marcos Llorente in the Real Madrid squad is understandable. Understandably, Madrid have a row of top midfielders such as Casemiro, Toni Kroos to Luka Modric.

According to reports from Don Balon, Pep Guardiola is ready to buy Llorente if Real Madrid decided to sell Marcos Llorente. Guardiola considers, Llorente is a suitable player to line Ilkay Gundogan. Also, Llorente is considered to be able to replace Fernandinho, who is beginning to be consumed by age.

Indeed, Marcos Llorente is not on the top list of Guardiola’s requests. The manager was attracted by the action of Borussia Dortmund midfielder Julian Weigl.

Julian Weigl is a midfielder who is more inclined to help defense. This season, the German-born player has played 21 matches.

However, Dortmund did not want to lose the 23-year-old midfielder. The club that is identical to the yellow color believes that Weigl can be the backbone of the team in the future.