Guardiola: Neymar’s transfer to Manchester City is wrong
Spanish coach Pep Guardiola of Manchester City, the English Premier League
champion, denied today, Wednesday, press reports that the French capital,
Paris Saint-Germain, offered his Brazilian star Neymar to the “Citizens” as
part of a player exchange deal.
In a press conference held in conjunction with the pre-season tour of the
Premier League champion in the United States, Pep Guardiola said:
“This is not true. I am sorry for them, but their information was wrong.”
The Spanish coach referred to an article published by the newspaper “Le Parisien”
claiming that Neymar, who moved to Paris Saint-Germain in a record deal amounting
to 222 million euros, could have been used as a bargaining chip in exchange for
the transfer of a player from City, “according to AFP.
The article specified that “the club trained by Guardiola responded quickly by denying
this possibility. The Spaniard does not want to cause a defect in building his group in
conjunction with the arrival of a star of this caliber,” according to the French agency.
Within the same race, Guardiola added, “Neymar is a great player and according to
the information I have, he is a very nice person. So leave him alone, and let him
express his wonderful talent in Paris,” and added, grumbling, “Every summer
(they write that) Manchester City will sign 150 players.” .
It is noteworthy that Manchester City was active even before the opening of the winter
transfer market by contracting the Norwegian international striker Erling Haaland from
Borussia Dortmund, German goalkeeper Stefan Ortega Moreno from Armenia Bielefeld,
the English international midfielder Calvin Phillips from Leeds United and Argentine
striker Julian Alvares, aged from The 22-year-old, who bought him last season but stayed
on loan with his former Argentine club River Plate, before joining City this summer.
On the other hand, Manchester City gave up Brazilian striker Gabriel Jesus to Arsenal
and Raheem Sterling to Chelsea, and his Ukrainian player Oleksandr Zinchenko is expected
to move to Arsenal at some time this week, as press reports stated that the London team
agreed to the player’s terms, and that the latter would conduct tests. medical later today.
Neymar’s transfer to Manchester City is wrong
