Manchester City made a winning start of their Premier League campaign to Wolverhampton Wanderers, but there can be more outputs before Deadline Day of the transfer
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola admitted that Rico Lewis could still leave the club before the end of the summer transfer window. Lewis started the victory of Saturday at Wolves and founded the opener of Erling Haaland, but was on the radar of Nottingham Forest.
Forest has already signed one player from the city this summer and signed James McATee in a deal worth £ 30 million. Lewis is expected to cost them a little more if he follows the example, and Guardiola would not exclude that.
“I think he will stay. I think,” said Guardiola after the 4-0 win in Molineux. “He told me that. But maybe it will change tomorrow.
“For example, in case with Phil [Foden]For Rico, for Nico O'Reilly, I have special sympathy because they were 16 or 17 years old when they arrived here and we won Premier competitions. In his role he is an extraordinary player.
“But he is so small. If he was bigger, we would say,” Oh what a player. “Today I think he will stay, but I don't know what's going to happen.”
Lewis, who came through the Academy of City before he broke under Guardiola, suggested that he has no plans to go somewhere. “I've always wanted to play for City,” he said.
“It's my dream club, and as you see today, when I play with the kind of players I play with, it brings the best in me, so I'm so happy.
“Everyone wants certainty and safety, but at the end of the day it is on me,” he said. “It is up to me to perform. It is on me to take the opportunities. If I take my own opportunities, I will do it. If I don't, I have to work and get better.”
Lewis' assisted for the goal of Haaland allowed the city to break the impasse 11 minutes before the break, and they made the score on 2-0 through the Premier League-debutant Tijjani Reijnders. Haaland received his second through a Reijders assistant around the hour Mark, before replacement Rayan Cherki added a late fourth.
“He is an incredible, big signature for us,” Guardiola said about Summerse Signing by Reijnders. “His work ethics, a regular midfielder, occupied many spaces and then after checking with the ball and his movements, and then he tries to find out and score – really satisfied.”
Wolves have been quieter than City in the transfer market, and manager Vitor Pereira indicated after the game that reinforcements are needed. “We have to keep doing the good things, improve the bad things and wait until the club buys new players because we need new quality to help,” he said, while his team lost their first league match, the departure of Rayan Ait-Nouri, Matheus Cunha and Nelson Semedo.