Manchester City will indeed create a transfer deadline day Splash, with a movement for Porto midfielder Nico Gonzalez who continues. The 23-year-old Spanish midfielder had expressed a wish on the Portuguese side to have the movement take place before the end of the transfer window.
The ex-La Masia product will be able to fly immediately to England after an agreement between the two clubs has been reached. City pays the value of its release clause of € 60 million, says relevant, but has negotiated a more flexible payment schedule, instead of paying the full fee in advance, as is the case with the AA clause.
Pep Guardiola seems to have identified him as a player who can give Rodri Hernandez in the middle of the field, and Nico has the opportunity to play for the defense, or as a more box-to-box midfielder. So much is proven by his 13 target contributions this season in just 29 performances.
The move will also be celebrated in the Catalan capital, because Barcelona maintained a 40% sale when they sold Gonzalez to Porto for € 8.44 million in the summer of 2023. That should yield € 24 million for the Blaugrana in total, In total, in total, beyond what they have already received. Including what Porto paid, Nico would make it their largest sale over the past 4.5 years, only surpassed by the € 50 million they received from Paris Saint-Germain for Ousmane Dembele two summers ago.
It seems unlikely that Barcelona will try to use that money before the end of the transfer deadline, despite different parts of the team that looked a bit briefly. Sports director Deco had identified the front line as the area to reinforce if they were to do that, but now with loan options such as Marcus Rashford and Mathys Tel that already seized, it is not clear to who they would turn.
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