The Manchester City reinforced to the maximum the past summer and, in full season, is collecting the fruits with a big dynamic of results, that has carried him to lead with authority the Premier League and to classify to the big to the eighth of final of the Champions League.
The path of the Manchester City in what it goes of course is flawless, but the injuries have done that Pep Guardiola pose if necessary go back to attend to the market. One of his possible aims in the market of signings is one of the wished by Ernesto Valverde.
It does some weeks aimed it 'The Sun', and now the 'Daily Mail' is the one who ensures that the one of Santpedor could bet by Íñigo Martínez to reinforce the defence, because of the drops of John Stones and Kompany, and to the little adapted profile for Eliaquim Mangala, slope to look for an exit of the Etihad Stadium in the next months. The characteristics of the realistic convince to the Catalan, that besides knows that paying the clause of 32 million euros his incorporation would be solved.
Precisely that was one of the requests of the 'Txingurri' does some months, when it expressed his doubts on the defenders barcelonistas and after having the signing agreed to with the technical office saw how threw it to him for backwards. The time has finish compensating to the Barça and Javier Mascherano and Thomas Vermaelen have answered well to the drops of Gerard Hammered and Samuel Umtiti, but the retouchings in the retaguardia have remained like a pending task.
The Barcelona, decided to bet by Mina
In this sense, and in addition to the affirmation of the own Íñigo Martínez ensuring that never it saw out of the Real Sociedad, the FC Barcelona could decant by others of the options that has in wallet, especially by Yerry Mina, with the aim to cover the imminent exit of Mascherano course to the Chinese football. The aim, of course, complete the relief generacional in a defence in which Gerard Hammered and Samuel Umtiti are, for the moment, the indisputable headlines.