August 13, (THEWILL) – Sergio Gomez is likely to be Manchester City’s final summer acquisition, according to City manager, Pep Guardiola.
The defending English Premier League champions have been looking for a new left-back all summer and tried to recruit Marc Cucurella from Brighton, but Chelsea ultimately won the bidding due to their refusal to match the Seagulls’ asking price.
While all of this was going on, City signed Anderlecht’s 21-year-old Gomez in a deal, intending to loan him out for the upcoming season. However, after failing to find a suitable replacement, City decided to keep Gomez.
At the pre-match presser, Guardiola said: “The moment we couldn’t go through with Cucurella because the club decide we wouldn’t pay this amount of money for this player, I said ‘okay’, think about the idea we had before to loan Sergio. We spent time to watch him more. I said ‘okay, it is perfect for everything – the price, young player, desire – okay, go for it’.
“I’m very, very pleased with the team. It’s not [big] in terms of numbers but there is incredible versatility and they all have huge quality – even the young academy lads. The quality is there, they just have to push each other to the next step this season.”
Jude Obafemi is a versatile senior Correspondent at THEWILL Newspapers, excelling in sourcing, researching, and delivering sports news stories for both print and digital publications.
