Man City agree to £50m deal for Porto star Nico Gonzalez as Pep Guardiola takes January transfer splurge to £177MILLION

MANCHESTER CITY person reportedly agreed to motion Nico Gonzalez successful a £50million deadline time transportation from Porto.

Pep Guardiola has already splashed the currency connected 3 archetypal squad stars this month.

Abdukodir Khusanov joined successful a £34m move from RC Lens, portion Brazilian teen Vitor Reis completed a swap from Palmeiras.

And guardant Omar Marmoush became the club's astir costly signing of the window erstwhile helium finalised a £64m transportation from Eintracht Frankfurt.

However, pursuing City's latest stroke - which came successful the signifier of a 5-1 decision to Arsenal - Guardiola has pushed to implicit 1 past deal.

Fabrizio Romano claims the reigning Premier League champions person reached a £50m statement with Porto for the transportation of Gonzalez, a cardinal midfielder.

The 23-year-old volition apt alert to Manchester contiguous to finalise the move, motion his declaration and implicit a medical.

Gonzalez officially joined Porto from Barcelona successful 2023 and has since made 68 appearances, scoring 9 goals and providing 9 assists.

Prior to his determination to Portugal, helium spent 2 years successful Barca's archetypal squad and made 37 appearances.

Guardiola admitted his City players were "fragile" pursuing their decision to Arsenal connected Sunday.

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He said: "The feeling is wherefore we person not done successful the past 20, 25 minutes what we had done good for the archetypal 60.

"Now we person to bespeak and speech with the players and anticipation that it doesn’t hap again.

"It tin beryllium fragile due to the fact that it happens truthful galore times. But we person a work to larn and determination are ever margins to get better.

"It’s happened each season, we are giving distant excessively galore things, we are alert this cannot happen, it happened."

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