Coach Pep Guardiola is said to be considering selling 8 Man City players after this team is excluded from the Champions League.
Losing 2-3 at home in the first leg of the Champions League play-off against the reigning champion Real Madrid, Man City needs to win unexpectedly at Santiago Bernabeu on Wednesday night.
However, that did not happen when the hat-trick of striker Kylian Mbappe made the mission impossible for Guardiola’s team, although they had a late goal of Nico Gonzalez winter rookie.
After the match, a new report said the captain of Man City was bored with 8 key players and was about to sell them this summer in a brutal purge.
In order to end the bad series at the end of 2024, Man City was busy in the winter transfer window. They signed a contract with Omar Marmoush, Nico González, Abdukodir Khusanov and Vitor Reis.
But now it seems that they will focus on selling people in the summer. The Daily Star has reported that Man City will consider selling Kevin de Bruyne, Bernardo Silva, John Stones, Mateo Kovacic, Kyle Walker, Ilkay Gundogan, Ederson and Jack Grealish.
It is not surprising that players like Gundogan and Walker are on the list. But some fans will be very shocked to see De Bruyne also on the listed list.
The Belgian midfielder has been a key factor in Man City’s success since joining from Wolfsburg in the summer of 2015. De Bruyne has played more than 400 times and scored 278 goals during this time.
However, the 33 -year -old has struggled with physical strength in recent seasons. And with a salary of £ 400,000 per week and the contract that is about to expire in the summer, it seems that Guardiola will allow him to leave the club as a free player at the end of the season.
Like De Bruyne, stars like Bernardo, Stones, Kovacic, Gundogan, Ederson and Walker seem to have left the best days behind. And Man City also wants to remove their salary from the book so they can afford to bring back the rookie in the near future.
Meanwhile, Greealish, who is still only 29 years old, is still in the peak but has not impressed since moving to the record price from Aston Villa.