Manchester City’s January transfer spending is smashing records

Thursday 23 January 2025 2:05 pm
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Thursday 23 January 2025 2:06 pm

Manchester Metropolis’s January switch window spending has rocketed to file ranges with the signing of Omar Marmoush, Abdukodir Khusanov and Vitor Reis, as Pep Guardiola makes an attempt to revive their season.

The trio have value the Premier League champions a mixed £128m. That’s greater than Manchester Metropolis’s spending within the eight earlier January switch home windows put collectively since Guardiola arrived in 2016.

The sum can also be greater than all the different golf equipment within the Premier League have spent mixed thus far on this winter window, which closes at 11pm on 3 February.

It comes with Manchester Metropolis all however out of rivalry to defend their home title and, following a dangerous 4-2 defeat at Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday, in peril of exiting the Champions League on the first stage.

Egypt ahead Marmoush is the most costly arrival and Manchester Metropolis’s fourth largest signing of all time. The 25-year-old from Eintracht Frankfurt will value an preliminary £59m, rising to £63m relying on his efficiency.

Marmoush has been one of many hottest strikers in Europe this season, scoring 15 instances in 17 video games within the Bundesliga. Solely England and Bayern Munich’s Harry Kane has hit the web extra ceaselessly in Germany.

Defender Khusanov is costing Manchester Metropolis £34m from French membership Lens. The 20-year-old, who is ready to turn into the primary participant from Uzbekistan to play within the Premier League, supplies cowl at centre-back.  

Brazilian teenager Reis, who additionally performs in central defence, has joined Manchester Metropolis from Palmeiras for £31m. The membership pipped a number of rivals together with Arsenal and Chelsea to the 19-year-old youth worldwide.

Man Metropolis spending provides to Haaland and Guardiola contracts

Their whole outlay of £128m dwarfs their earlier largest January beneath Guardiola, in 2018, when the signing of Spain defender Aymeric Laporte from Athletic Bilbao made up the majority of a £60m monetary dedication.

On high of their signings, the membership have additionally made a significant monetary dedication by handing striker Erling Haaland a bumper new nine-and-a-half-year contract. Haaland’s deal is reported to be price not less than £260m.  

Guardiola, too, signed a brand new contract earlier this season that may maintain him in Manchester till not less than 2026. The Catalan is among the many highest-paid managers in soccer and is reported to earn £20m a yr.