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DIRECTOR: Pep Guardiola reopens the portfolio of a defender of the deer. Photo: CATHERINE IVILL / X01348
After the 2-5 loss to Leicester, Manchester City have reopened their wallets. With the Portuguese Ruben Dias (23) on board, the defense of the city today is worth almost five billion crowns.
Manchester City have been marked as the most dangerous offensive team in the Premier League under Pep Guardiola. In the past three seasons alone, the Light Blues have replaced 303 goals in the league, largely thanks to their offensive stars.
But the other way around, the star coach is fighting harder: Season after season, City leaves huge sums of money on defensive players through the transfer window. The same applies this year.
City have conceded six goals in the first two league games of the season, and on Tuesday night last year’s league running back confirmed the club’s most expensive defensive signing of all time. Guardiola and the sugar-rich club owners put around NKr 750 million on the table for Benfica midfielder Rubén Dias.
The Portuguese confirmed the transfer on Sunday, while City announced the deal on Tuesday night.
ANIMALS: Ruben Dias has signed a six-year contract with Manchester City. Photo: Manchester City
Therefore, the city’s defense accounts continue to grow. The most expensive defense in the world consists of a series of swine signings:
- Ruben Dias: 750 million crowns
- Nathan Aké: 501 million crowns
- Kyle Walker: $ 582 million
- John Stones: 615 million
- Aymeric Laporte: 718 million crowns
- Benjamin Mendy: 636 million crowns
- João Cancelo: 718 million crowns
The total sum will be just over NOK 4.52 billion. Figures are from transfermarkt.com and are calculated at the current exchange rate.
If you include the goalkeepers in the defense accounts, you can add 442 million for Ederson, and then almost five billion kronor is spent sealing backwards.
It is worth mentioning that City sold defenders for NOK 741 million in the same period in which the current defense line was added.
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Dias, 23, has played for Benfica throughout his professional career and is considered a promising midfielder.
– This is a fantastic opportunity, to which I could not say no. I think I can develop here, and it is a club with great ambitions like me. I will do my best for us to be successful and win titles, he says. the club website.
Dias has 19 matches for the national team A for Portugal. In the City dressing room he is accompanied by compatriots Bernardo Silva and Cancelo.
– We have admired Rubén for a long time and have been impressed with the progress he has shown at Benfica. He has become a true leader and as a defender he has all the skills we are looking for. He’s strong in the air, good one on one and he’s good technically. We’re confident he can shine in our system, says City sporting director Txiki Begiristain.
The defender has signed a six-year contract and is the third signing this summer at Etihad Stadium. Earlier this summer, Ferran Torres and Nathan Aké signed for the club.
Midfielder Nicolás Otamendi has gone in the opposite direction to Dias and has signed for Benfica.
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