Official: Guardiola has his first winter signing

It’s official now, Guardiola It has a new center: Abdukodir Khusanov (20 years old). He City of Manchester has paid to Lens 40 million more variables to include the promising defender and meet one of the Santpedor coach’s main requests.

The defender is a bet for the future of the technical secretary of Txiki Begiristainsign up 2029 and will bring the ’45’ behind. Furthermore, it will go down in history Premier League as he will be the first Uzbek player to compete in the competition.

“I’m really happy to join Manchester City, a club I’ve watched for a long time,” the former Lens player told the club’s media, adding that “this team is full of the best players in the world and I can. Don’t wait to meet them and play with them. And, of course, Pep Guardiola is one of the best coaches of all time and I’m excited to learn from him and get better.”.

The career of Khusanov has had a meteoric rise in the last year and a half, from cost 100,000 euros in the summer of 2023 at cost 40 million. And, if that wasn’t enough, it was more expensive sales of the ‘blood and gold’ club, which corresponds to the transfer of Loic Openda in Leipzig.

There were also statements of Txiki Begiristainwho highlighted that “we are very happy to be with him and very excited about what he will bring. For a young defender, Abdukodir is very intelligent, as well as strong, aggressive and very fast. “Working with Pep will only improve him and, having spoken to him, he is determined to continue improving.”

Also, everything indicates that this is not the last move of the ‘skyblue’ in the market this winter. The signatures of Omar Marmoush and Victor Reyes They are on track and expected to be official in the next few days. Furthermore, the Egyptian has said goodbye to the fans of Eintracht Frankfurt.