Man City set to appoint ‘transfer guru’ who signed Man Utd and Tottenham stars

Manchester City are reportedly acceptable to name Sporting Lisbon ‘transfer guru’ Hugo Viana arsenic their caller manager of shot to regenerate Txiki Begiristain.

It would beryllium a large coup for the Premier League champions, who are erstwhile again hoping to onshore this season’s top-flight trophy implicit Arsenal and Liverpool.

That’s due to the fact that helium is highly regarded for his concern acumen, and was liable for Sporting signing a fig of players who’ve moved connected to the Premier League.

Viana played a large relation successful securing deals for Manuel Ugarte and Pedro Porro, who person since near Sporting to articulation Manchester United and Tottenham respectively.

He is present expected to swap Portugal for England aboriginal adjacent twelvemonth with City having the ground of a woody successful place, according to The Telegraph.

City person worked agelong and hard to find the cleanable replacement for Begiristain, regarded arsenic 1 of the champion sporting directors successful the world, who is stepping down astatine the extremity of the season.

They privation Viana to ‘shadow’ Begiristain from aboriginal 2025 truthful helium is acceptable to instrumentality implicit for the 2025-26 play onwards.

As good arsenic his awesome enactment successful the transportation market, Viana played an instrumental relation successful bringing successful the highly-rated Ruben Amorim arsenic Sporting’s caput coach.

City’s woody for Viana comes astatine an absorbing time, with City’s existent manager Pep Guardiola retired of declaration astatine the extremity of the season.

While Bayer Leverkusen caput manager Xabi Alonso is expected to beryllium a starring contender, it is thought that Amorim could present travel nether consideration.

That’s lone if Guardiola decides to permission the nine and it should beryllium noted that helium is yet to bespeak whether helium intends to widen his woody with City oregon leave.

Amorim has been linked to the Chelsea and United jobs pursuing his awesome enactment astatine Sporting successful Portugal.

The 39-year-old, Sporting’s manager since 2020, has helped the nine triumph 2 Primeira Liga titles and 2 Portuguese League Cups.

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