Romano: Tijjani Reijnders to Manchester City, here we go!
Verbal agreement for the Dutch midfielder to join Manchester City.
Deal almost ready since yesterday as revealed and now is being completed for package worth around € 70 million.
Personal terms sealed days ago and formal steps you follow.
The athletics:
Manchester City has reached an agreement worth € 55 million (£ 46.3 million) plus add-ons with Milan to sign midfielder Tijjani Reijnders.
The athletics reported earlier in May that the city had contacted Milan to show an interest in signing the 26-year-old, who agreed a five-year-old deal at Etihad.
The conversations have been underway with a club-to-club agreement that has now been reached for Reijnders to become a member of Pep Guardiola.
Nederlands International has only recently renewed its contract to the Serie A side until 2030.
Reijnders enjoyed an impressive season for Milan, scored 15 goals in all competitions and became a voted Serie A -Midfielder of the year.
Kevin De Bruyne's Exit leaves the city with a hole to fill in midfield, even after they reinforced their options in the winter transfer window with the signing of Nico Gonzalez from Porto.
They will be helped by the return of Rodri, the Ballon d'Or winner, who made his comeback from a long -term front cruciate ligament (ACL) injury dismissal for the penultimate game of the Premier League campaign.
Reijnders joined Milan van AZ in 2023 and signed a new deal that continues in March to 2030.
He has been covered by the Netherlands 22 times since he made his debut in 2023 and was part of the side that reached the semi -final of the European Championship 2024.
'Reijnders has a mixture of characteristics to stimulate city fans'
Analysis by Manchester City Correspondent Sam Lee
See how Reijnders play, you have to conclude that he would immediately look at home in the midfield of the city.
No matter how much he learned by looking at Kevin De Bruyne, his playing style is more a cross between Bernardo Silva and that of Ilkay Gundogan.
Reijnders, although not particularly tenacious defensive, has an exciting mix of characteristics on the ball that city fans should excite.
He is a player who is able to influence a game in all areas of the field: he is very comfortable in the first place from his keeper, a staple of the structure of the city, and he is usually the deepest midfielder of Milan who is ready to step on the ball, instead of a supplement to a medium -fit.
For example, City Gundogan can use City Gundogan against particularly high -pressing teams to drop deeply and help Rodri, but expect him to go on the field with the piece, even in the last third part contributes, and this is something that Reijnders does a lot.
As a player who can dictate the pace of a game through a few different methods of methods, fast steps, wear or off-the-ball runs, it makes him an ideal candidate to contribute to the game of the city in midfield.