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Jakarta –
Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City has spent a lot of defense purchases. At least The Citizens spent more than Rp. 8 billion to strengthen the last row.
Manchester City will have the arrival of a new Benfica defender in the near future. It’s Ruben Dias, who was bought for about 65 million pounds.
Benfica has announced the transfer of Ruben Dias to Man City through its official website. In the transaction, Manc City loaned Nicolas Otamendi to Benfica.
Ruben Dias’s entry indicates that Pep Guardiola’s Manchester Blue has spent around £ 425.1 million or the equivalent of Rs 8 trillion more to buy defenders. Man City previously hired Nathan Ake from Bournemouth for £ 47.4 million.
Yan Couto is the cheapest defender City has bought in the Guardiola era. The 18-year-old came from Coritiba FC for £ 5m and is currently on loan to Girona.
In addition, Manchester City has Pedro Porro who was bought for 10 million pounds from Girona. The 21-year-old Spanish defender is on loan to Sporting CP.
There is Angelino who was bought by Man City from PSV Eindhoven. He only played 15 times for the Man City senior team before finally being loaned out to RB Leipzig.
Danilo also entered the Guardiola era after being traded for £ 27 million from Real Madrid in 2017. The Brazilian defender played 60 games for Los Ciudadanos and was finally released to Juventus in August 2019.
Guardiola brought in Kyle Walker in 2017. This transfer resulted in City having to hand over £ 47.4 million to Tottenham Hotspur.
John Stones became Guardiola’s defender in his first season at Manchester City. The Stones was bought for £ 50m and has so far made 134 appearances for Manchester City.
Manchester City also bought Benjamin Mendy from AS Monaco in the summer of 2017 for a fee of £ 51.7 million. Mendy has only played 56 for Man City.
There are also Aymeric Laporte and Joao Cancelo, who were bought by Manchester City for 58.5 million pounds each. Laporte was redeemed from Athletic Bilbao in January 2018 and Cancelo from Juventus in August 2019.
(ran / mrp)
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