Up to now, Man City is the most spending team on Techmart 2025 with a total of £ 290 million. However, Pep Guardiola still has a lot of work before the season starts for nearly 1 month.
Get a right -class defender
The recruitment of Rayan Ait-Touri marked the end of the era of Pep's reverse-backed defender and aimed to return to the 4-defender diagram with two high wingers. And the Spanish leader needs to complete this transition by recruiting a right -class defender to reserve the Algerian player.
Tino Livrange is an ideal goal, although Newcastle does not want to sell England this summer. In addition, Man City is also pursuing Flamengo's Wesley, but the Brazilian is also the top goal of Roma.
Last season, Man City had three right defenders, but none of them really fits this position. Kyle Walker's performance was so down that he had to quickly move to Milan on loan, and then officially signed a contract with Burnley. Rico Lewis had difficulty playing regularly in this position. And his best performance against Nottingham Forest in the FA Cup semi -finals came from midfield.
Matheus Nunes took time to adapt to this role after Guardiola said he was not smart enough to become a midfielder. However, the performance of Nunes is not enough to convince Pep.
Clarify the future of Ederson
The situation of two goalkeepers at Man City is a problem. Both Ederson and Stefan Ortega played badly last season and were entering the last year of the contract. Many NHM believes that it is time for The Citizens to recruit the successor of Ederson, especially after a poor World Cup, where he gave Juventus a goal with a broken pass and conceded 4 times in the defeat of Al-Hilal in the 1/8 round.
City has been looking for new potential goalkeepers, besides signing a contract with Marcus Bettinelli to replace Scott Carson as the third reserve goalkeeper. But having no suggestions for Ederson and Ortega makes it difficult for them to find a new number 1 goalkeeper. If Man City considers Ederson as their No. 1 goalkeeper in the next few seasons, they should give him a new contract.
Sell Mcatee at a reasonable price
The fact that James Mcatee had to leave the club he joined at 11 years old was made public. With no less than 7 players on the UK in the midfield and attacking, MCatee clearly determined to find a new stop to start a career.
According to Man City, MCatee's transfer fee is very high after leading the U21 UK to win at the recent European U21 championship and the ability to sell him can create “pure profits” to suit the Premier League's profit and sustainability rules.
The problem is not the MCatee will leave or not, but which club he will go to and how much. On the market, MCatee costs about 25 million pounds. But Man City is hoping to sell him with nearly 40 million pounds. It is known that Mcatee visited Frankfurt and Dortmund, while Nottingham also expressed his interest in him.
Liquidation of a series of defenders
At the end of last season, Guardiola hinted at the players he wanted to liquidate. There was even a time when he listed their names. Specifically, Nathan Ake and John Stones. He did not ask questions about their form, but instead, he mentioned the difficulties in keeping both of both physical strength.
Stones had 11 appearances in the Premier League last season, of which only 6 main kicks. Ake played 10 matches in the Premier League, played 8 matches. The Dutch player had 5 injuries during the season, a total of 166 days off. Although Pep is very grateful to both players for their contributions in the three -year -2023 meal season, his patience with their trauma series has been exhausted.
Find new stops for Greealish
A video spread to Jack Greealish from one of Oasis's concerts at Heaton Park has summarized all that NHM Man City loved in this midfielder, and emphasized why he could not stay in the club. He seemed to like the concert that Guardiola also attended, and expressed his love for The Citizens.
However, in Pep's eyes, it is a negative image. Remember, his first action as the Barca coach was Ronaldinho and Deco because of the negative effects they caused to Lionel Messi. And although he has tolerated Grealish many times, he was overwhelming, but he was clearly “allergic” to the excessive Greatish.
Last season, although Greealish was almost no injury, the midfielder only played 7 Premier League matches 2024/25 and sometimes he also stated that Savinho was played more than Grealish because he “could be better and everything”. Pep itself confirmed in June that Grealish would leave after eliminating him from the FIFA Club World Cup 2025.
The current problem is, Man City has not received any offer for Grealish. Transfer fee (about 50-60 million pounds), salary (300,000 pounds/week) of Grealish is the resistance that many teams do not dare to “come” him.
