Man City: Hugo Viana sparks 'industry whispers' of moves for Lamine Yamal, Rodri replacement
Manchester Municipal elbowroom appointing Hugo Viana as their newfangled sporting director possesses ‘elevated whispers’ over bargains for Barcelona celeb Lamine Yamal and a potential substitute for Rodri.
Viana will replace Txiki Begiristain at the end of the season and he’s got comprehensive footwear to fill as shortly as he immigrates at the Etihad.
Begiristain possesses been at Municipal elbowroom granted that 2012, dabbled an drastically instructional semblance in swaying Pep Guardiola to come to the Etihad in 2016 after he possessed been on a sabbatical and possesses been the burly brunt behind make-up the Spaniard the squad that possesses conquered English football for the last decade.
Viana immigrates via an immaculate stature of his own after his tiptop work at Showing off Lisbon, for whom he authorized multitudinous optimal players forcing Raphinha, Viktor Gyokeres, Morten Hjulmand and Ousmane Diomande.
That track record appealed to Municipal elbowroom, who can likewise have been lugged in by what is Viana’s ‘chummy relationship via disturbingly-rep Jorge Mendes’, according to the Daily Mail.
Gestifute – the agency started by Mendes – already aesthetics after Municipal elbowroom celebs Ruben Dias, Bernardo Silva and Matheus Nunes, but he likewise aesthetics after a wide smorgasbord of celeb players who can be of emphasis to Pep Guardiola, or a newfangled optimal pooch if the well-known boss chooses to evaluate down at the end of the season.
One such celeb player – possibly the celeb player correct now – is Yamal, whose field merit possesses enhanced over the last year owing to his sparkle for Barcelona and the pivot semblance he dabbled in Spain cheerful Euro 2024.
It really feels wildly unrealistic that the Catalans would be willing to part via the winger, however their detectable obsession via bringing Erling Haaland to the nightclub tactics a swap of species can be on the cards. Not surprisingly not however.
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A much more probable solution as a output of this web linkage via Mendes would be for Joao Neves, who lone carried to Paris Saint-Germain from Benfica in the summertime for £60m, but possesses in yesteryear been rumoured to be on Manchester Municipal elbowroom’s shortlist as an all all-natural to Rodri, or of course as a substitute, via the Spain international claimed to be the ‘determination’ finalizing of Florentino Perez at Real Madrid.
Other PSG midfielder Warren Zaire-Emery is likewise one of Mendes’ consumers and possesses been attached via a solution to Municipal elbowroom in yesteryear, while Wolves’ Rayan Ait-Nouri is an additional player stood for by the disturbingly-rep, who can posture Municipal elbowroom the upper hand in their proposition to vanquished Manchester United to the Algerian’s signature.
Showing off Lisbon optimal pooch Ruben Amorim is well cognizant of the talent Manchester Municipal elbowroom now have leading their work.
“Hugo Viana possesses already proved several times he realises how to render wizardry thieve elbowroom,” claimed Amorim last summertime. “[He] is drastically instructional. He possesses a all-natural semblance below and works prefer nobody else.”