Nicolas Gonzalez: Man City set to complete fourth January transfer after striking 'agreement' for £48.9m deal

According to Fabrizio Romano, the 23-year-old is acceptable to articulation the Premier League champions aft an statement successful rule was yet reached pursuing days of negotiations.

It is understood that Gonzalez has been granted support by Porto to question to Manchester and acquisition a aesculapian up of signing a declaration with City.

The nine are making a determination for Gonzalez to supply screen for Rodri who is not expected to diagnostic again this play aft suffering an ACL wounded past September which required surgery.

Should this woody spell done earlier tonight's deadline past the Spaniard volition go City's 4th signing of the January transportation window.

Abdukodir Khusanov, Vitor Reis and Omar Marmoush person been recruited successful an effort to springiness Man City a boost for the 2nd fractional of the season.

On utilizing the January transportation window to bolster the squad, manager Pep Guardiola said astatine his pre-Arsenal property league past Friday: “The Club decided to bring successful other an subordinate successful the last 3rd with talent, scoring, running, assists, acceptable pieces.

"I deliberation but for Aymeric Laporte, we ne'er went to wintertime transfer. Always we privation to spell to the extremity but it’s an exceptional situation, this play is exceptional for galore things. We should intervene to decorativeness the play arsenic champion arsenic possible.

"Players don’t travel for six months, they travel for four, five, six years if everything is going well. That’s wherefore we went there. Financially we are unchangeable from past seasons, present we are successful nett net for the past 5 seasons.

"Financially the nine has moved good successful the past 5 years, successful presumption of income and players making an unthinkable show to triumph what we won."