MANCHESTER CITY have reportedly agreed to sign Nico Gonzalez in a £50million deadline day transfer from Porto.
Pep Guardiola has already splashed the cash on three first team stars this month.
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Abdukodir Khusanov joined in a £34m move from RC Lens, while Brazilian teenager Vitor Reis completed a swap from Palmeiras.
And forward Omar Marmoush became the club’s most expensive signing of the window when he finalised a £64m transfer from Eintracht Frankfurt.
However, following City’s latest blow – which came in the form of a 5-1 defeat to Arsenal – Guardiola has pushed to complete one last deal.
Fabrizio Romano claims the reigning Premier League champions have reached a £50m agreement with Porto for the transfer of Gonzalez, a central midfielder.
The 23-year-old will likely fly to Manchester today to finalise the move, sign his contract and complete a medical.
Gonzalez officially joined Porto from Barcelona in 2023 and has since made 68 appearances, scoring nine goals and providing nine assists.
Prior to his move to Portugal, he spent two years in Barca’s first team and made 37 appearances.
Guardiola admitted his City players were “fragile” following their defeat to Arsenal on Sunday.
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He said: “The feeling is why we have not done in the last 20, 25 minutes what we had done well for the first 60.
“Now we have to reflect and talk with the players and hope that it doesn’t happen again.
“It can be fragile because it happens so many times. But we have a duty to learn and there are always margins to get better.
“It’s happened all season, we are giving away too many things, we are aware this cannot happen, it happened.”
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