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Manchester City will not find a replacement for Sergio Agüero next season. Because, Citizens’ financial situation is no longer good due to the corona virus pandemic.
Agüero is sure to leave City as soon as his contract runs out this summer. So it’s only natural that City are reportedly targeting a top-tier forward to replace Agüero, who has been a scoring machine.
The names Erling Haaland, Kylian Mbappe and Harry Kane are on the city’s shopping list. With the power of the owner’s money, the City could compensate one of these high-priced strikers.
However, Pep Guardiola as City manager is pessimistic that this will happen. This is because the economic situation of the club has not been stable due to the Covid-19 storm, so they cannot spend money freely.
Therefore, City prefer to maximize Gabriel Jesus and Ferran Torres and promote academy players, rather than spend more than 100 million pounds on Haaland or Kane.
“We will not buy attackers if the price is so high. It is impossible, we have no money,” Guardiola said, as quoted by ESPN.
“All the clubs are going through financial difficulties and so are we. We have Gabriel Jesús, Ferran Torres, many players from the academy, and sometimes we play with a false nine. Most likely we will not buy a new striker next season,” he continued.
“We already have a lot of players in the first team at the moment and also aspiring stars in the academy. This is a huge challenge if you look at the current world situation, due to the economic problems in football. So we will not buy a new forward. ”, Concluded Pep Guardiola.
(mrp / ran)
