Man City eye transfers for Liverpool target and England surprise in bid to get over slump

Rodri's wounded has shaken Manchester City's play and a caller winless tally could punctual manager Pep Guardiola to dip into the transportation marketplace earlier than planned

Manchester City's bid to repair their midfield has seen them crook to Martin Zubimendi and Adam Wharton, it has been claimed.

Pep Guardiola's broadside person struggled since losing Ballon d'Or holder Rodri to a season-ending ACL injury. They are winless successful their past six games successful each competitions, losing 5 connected the rotation earlier throwing distant a three-goal pb to gully with Feyenoord connected Tuesday night.

City instrumentality connected Liverpool astatine Anfield connected Sunday, wherever a decision would permission them 11 points adrift of the Premier League leaders. Their Champions League hopes person besides been dented successful caller weeks, with Guardiola's men apt facing a play-off for the circular of 16 unless they assertion maximum points from Juventus, Paris Saint-Germain and Club Brugge.

If they marque it into the knockout stages successful Europe, they whitethorn consciousness a due Rodri replacement is required. And that could unit them to dip into the transportation marketplace successful a large way.

According to The Mail, City initially planned to adhd a midfielder to their ranks adjacent summertime but could extremity up moving sooner. Neither Zubimendi nor Wharton would travel cheap, though.

Liverpool were adjacent to bringing Zubimendi to Anfield implicit the summer, lone for the Spanish planetary to enactment astatine Real Sociedad. It was helium who stepped successful for Rodri successful the Euro 2024 final, helping Spain get implicit the enactment against England arsenic nine team-mate Mikel Oyarzabal scored a precocious winner.

Wharton has been astatine Selhurst Park for little than a year, but made a accelerated interaction aft joining for £18million from Blackburn successful January. The England planetary is nether declaration until 2029, suggesting Palace won't beryllium successful immoderate unreserved to merchantability unless a big-money bid arrives, though they are said to recognise helium could permission for a Champions League nine successful 1 of the adjacent fewer windows.

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City mightiness person stopped their losing tally against Feyenoord, but the mode of their precocious illness was worrying. Guardiola's squad led 3-0 going into the last 15 minutes, lone for Anis Hadj Moussa, Santi Gimenez and David Hancko to implicit an unexpected comeback for the visitors.

“As a squad we person ever recovered a mode to triumph games," Guardiola said aft the draw. "Right now, aft 3-0, different situations, it’s arsenic if thing happened. We could not people the 4th oregon fifth.

“Unfortunately thing happened and we were not beardown capable and we person to debar the mistakes. Everybody knows the situations. We person to hole and recover. Have a time off.

“It has been, is being and volition beryllium a pugnacious play for us. We person to judge it for galore circumstances. The squad was truthful committed successful galore things. Unfortunately thing happened and we were not beardown capable and we person to effort to debar the mistakes."

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