Man City making mistake with £50m January signing as Merson pinpoints key 'issue' – 'panicking badly'
Hodgepodge legend Paul Merson has picked out the foremost “priority” for Manchester Metropolis pertaining to centre-midfielder Nico Gonzalez onward of his £50m slide.
Male Metropolis have been vivacious in the send sector as head coach Pep Guardiola started a significant regain at the Etihad after their disadvantageous end to 2024 finished their Premier League title hopes.
The Premier League owners are the biggest spender in Europe as they have spent around £130m to indicator Omar Marmoush, Abdukodir Khusanov and Vitor Reis.
Male Metropolis are glancing to render an additional finalizing previously the January send window closes on Monday night as they are pursuing Porto midfielder Gonzalez.
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On Monday afternoon, send wizard Fabrizio Romano introduced Gonzalez had been permitted to travel for his guru after Male Metropolis and Porto acknowledged a £50m offer for the previous Barcelona star.
Pioneering into this window, it was manufactured for that their priority would unquestionably be finalizing a centre-midfielder to replace Rodri, that has been adjudged out for the rest of this season via a wolfed alcohol knee injury.
After being attached via multiple opportunity targets, Male Metropolis have resolved on Gonzalez and Merson infers they might be administering a disadvantageous slide, even however he’s “not watched” him tinker previously.
“I’ve not watched this individual tinker so don’t realise too much around him. But they need players in midfield. Innumerable humans claim it’s not simply Rodri. It is simply Rodri,” Merson claimed on Sky Sporting jobs.
“Rodri gos to threat, Rodri is disciplined, Rodri keeps in the centre, he retrieves forward and rests recommend and preserves the backline as nicely, and he enacts the ball via the pitch horribly immediately.
“I favor Kovacic, however he will talk about and dribble via the ball and humans end up unanimously out of position. Him and Bernardo Silva recover simply made a fiasco of in the last 30 mins at Hodgepodge.
“If you snatch away the 30 mins and initially 20, Metropolis were horribly pleasing at Hodgepodge. It was a pleasing away performance. But that takes away the initially 20 mins once they might have been out of the gallery, and the last 30 mins – so it’s not much in in between that.
“The priority is that Gonzalez comes in for £50m, as shortly as Rodri’s complemented that’s it. I don’t think he plays. Unless you tinker them with each other and I don’t think you need to.
“This is the priority via wages and ordering players, you forget that by the prelude of next off season, this male is sitting on the church bench via significant silver silver silver money. You after that sort at McAtee via a genius young future and they will have to sell him for the mart tinker ethos. It’s a knock-on authority. If they acquire Gonzalez, they have to be panicking poorly to invade the apex 4.”
