Manchester City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak has confirmed that the club will sign “a couple more” players during the upcoming transfer window.
The Citizens have already agreed to sign Erling Braut Haaland from Borussia Dortmund, with the 21-year-old expected to cost the Premier League champions around £51 million.
Meanwhile, the club signed Julian Alvarez from River Plate in January, and the 22-year-old is expected to join the club this summer.
Fernandinho‘s exit will allegedly see Man City enter the transfer market for a new central midfielder, and left-back is also believed to be an area that the club wants to strengthen ahead of next season.
Chairman Al Mubarak has said that the team has already made “two very important additions” but is planning to bring in “a couple more” before the end of the summer window.
“I can confirm that there will be more players coming in,” he told the club’s official website. “We are looking to strengthen the team in the areas that we need strengthening. As you know, every season some players leave, and then we have to continuously refresh the team.
“Again, we will always look at improving and strengthening. I think we’ve made two very important additions already, but I anticipate we’ll be doing a couple more. We’ll try to go as fast as we can, but you know how the market goes. It’s not always entirely in our control.”
Al Mubarak has insisted that Man City will not panic in the market and are only prepared to bring in players that are of the required quality to boost the squad.
“With Pep and with this team it’s not just about filling a position,” he added. “We have reached a level of quality, a standard in which we cannot and will not compromise on quality.
“If we find the right player for that particular position, we will get that player and if not, Pep has shown us he will find solutions within the quality of the group we have and within the quality of the academy.
“We’re in a different position to the one we were in many years ago. We have so much talent available within the squad and the academy that when we need something, it’s very specific and it’s very deliberate.
“If we can bring in that specific player, that’s fantastic; if not, that doesn’t mean no one else can. From that point of view, we are in a different paradigm.”
In recent weeks, Arsenal has been linked with moves for Gabriel Jesus and Oleksandr Zinchenko, while Bernardo Silva’s future remains uncertain, with the Portugal international believed to be dissatisfied with life in England.
