{"id":5035,"date":"2022-01-07T09:02:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T14:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/01\/07\/tottenham-boost-manchester-city-make-erling-haaland-first-choice-target\/"},"modified":"2022-01-07T09:02:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T14:02:25","slug":"tottenham-boost-manchester-city-make-erling-haaland-first-choice-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/01\/07\/tottenham-boost-manchester-city-make-erling-haaland-first-choice-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham boost? Manchester City make Erling Haaland first-choice target"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>An insight into Manchester City\u2019s transfer plans moving forward has been provided on Friday.<\/p>\n<h2>Manchester City set for quiet January?<\/h2>\n<p>Firstly, <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/3054326\/2022\/01\/07\/ornsteins-transfer-mailbag-citys-haaland-move-arsenal-and-vlahovic-cantwell-can-go\/?source=emp_shared_article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Athletic<\/a> suggest that Manchester City are going to have a quiet winter window.<\/p>\n<p>A left-back, central midfielder and striker are all mentioned as positions to be targeted.<\/p>\n<p>This makes a fair bit of sense given Man City only have Gabriel Jesus as a semi-natural centre-forward option right now, Fernandinho will leave in the summer \u2013 leaving Rodri as their only holding midfielder \u2013 and Oleksandr Zinchenko is City\u2019s only out-and-out left-back right now.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Manchester City faithful will be waiting until at least the summer to see those positions filled as The Athletic claim that the Sky Blues do not intend to recruit anybody in January.<\/p>\n<h2>Manchester City want Erling Haaland<\/h2>\n<p>The same report provides an insight into Manchester City\u2019s plans for signing a striker.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester City\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/official-harry-kane-confirms-he-is-staying-at-tottenham-this-summer\/\">pursuit<\/a> of Tottenham\u2019s Harry Kane over the summer of 2021 was well documented, though Kane did end up staying put in north London.<\/p>\n<p>And now, it appears the ship has all but sailed on a Kane to City deal.<\/p>\n<p>This comes with The Athletic reporting that City\u2019s first-choice target is Erling Haaland, with the Manchester outfit planning to hold meetings with the Norwegian\u2019s representatives over the weeks and months ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Should Man City not land Haaland they are said to have other options, such as Alexander Isak and Dusan Vlahovic.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">City transfers news in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/David_Ornstein?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@David_Ornstein<\/a>\u2019s mailbag today<\/p>\n<p>City will try to sign Erling Haaland but at the moment Real Madrid are the leading contenders.<\/p>\n<p>City not giving up and will make sure they have everything in place to sign him. More here <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vk1b21CWVa\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/vk1b21CWVa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sam Lee (@SamLee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamLee\/status\/1479367717652160512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/football-betting-tips\/match-previews\/football-predictions\/chelsea-vs-chesterfield-betting-tips-fa-cup-preview\/\">Chelsea vs Chesterfield betting tips: FA Cup preview, predictions and odds<\/a><br \/>\n<\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/football-betting-tips\/match-previews\/football-predictions\/swindon-town-vs-manchester-city-betting-tips-fa-cup-preview\/\">Swindon Town vs Manchester City betting tips: FA Cup preview, predictions and odds<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An insight into Manchester City\u2019s transfer plans moving forward has been provided on Friday. Manchester City set for quiet January? Firstly, The Athletic suggest that Manchester City are going to have a quiet winter window. A left-back, central midfielder and striker are all mentioned as positions to be targeted. This makes a fair bit of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-5035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-football","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}