{"id":6182,"date":"2022-01-16T15:01:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T20:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/01\/16\/manchester-city-eye-real-madrid-star-as-potential-ferran-torres-replacement\/"},"modified":"2022-01-16T15:01:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T20:01:08","slug":"manchester-city-eye-real-madrid-star-as-potential-ferran-torres-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/01\/16\/manchester-city-eye-real-madrid-star-as-potential-ferran-torres-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City eye Real Madrid star as potential Ferran Torres replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2>Manchester City sell Ferran Torres<\/h2>\n<p>Manchester City would sign Ferran Torres from Valencia in August of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Torres proved something of a bit-part player during his first season with the Sky Blues, unsurprising given his age, the fact that it marked his first in the Premier League, and the sheer competition for places at the Etihad, particularly in the attacking third.<\/p>\n<p>Despite all of this, though, the 21-year-old still managed 36 appearances for City, racking up an impressive 13 goals and providing three assists.<\/p>\n<p>Torres would then hit the ground running this season, too. Following the Citizens\u2019 failure to sign a striker over the summer, Pep Guardiola opted to hand the Spaniard the chance to shine in a false-nine role.<\/p>\n<p>And Torres looked impressive in this role across the opening few weeks of the campaign, including versus Arsenal, when he scored twice and provided one assist.<\/p>\n<p>However, Torres was then injured and before he had a chance to return, was sold to Barcelona in the winter window for a potential \u20ac65m:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ferr\u00e1n Torres deal now completed. ??? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FCB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FCB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bar\u00e7a will pay \u20ac55m guaranteed plus \u20ac10m in installments.<\/p>\n<p>Man City accepted to sell only because Ferr\u00e1n asked to move back to Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Xavi was key as he called Ferr\u00e1n many times and he only wanted him.<\/p>\n<p>Contract 2027, \u20ac1B clause. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0n5nftNUfH\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/0n5nftNUfH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1475836813633900552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nManchester City eye Vinicius Junior<\/h2>\n<p>Now, it appears as though Manchester City are looking at a potential replacement for Torres.<\/p>\n<p>As per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/live\/transfer-news-and-rumours-live\/blted8dae94c3600eb7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Goal citing Spanish outlet El Nacional<\/a>, Manchester City have made an initial approach for Real Madrid winger Vinicius Junior, with Pep Guardiola said to have personally contacted the 21-year-old\u2019s representatives over a potential summer transfer.<\/p>\n<p>It is added that City are looking at Vinicius as a potential replacement for Ferran Torres following his move to Barcelona,<\/p>\n<p>However, Madrid have no plans to sell and want to avoid a repeat of the Robinho deal brokered back in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Vinicius Junior has scored 15 and assisted nine in 27 ties for Real this term.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/manchester-city-identify-under-the-radar-left-back-replacement\/\">Manchester City identify under-the-radar left-back replacement<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/one-arsenal-star-included-as-manchester-city-dominate-alan-shearers-team-of-the-season-so-far\/\">One Arsenal star included as Manchester City dominate: Alan Shearer\u2019s Team of the Season so far<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City sell Ferran Torres Manchester City would sign Ferran Torres from Valencia in August of 2020. Torres proved something of a bit-part player during his first season with the Sky Blues, unsurprising given his age, the fact that it marked his first in the Premier League, and the sheer competition for places at the [&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-6182","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\/6182","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=6182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}