Manchester Metropolis are mentioned to have made contact with a La Liga facet over the provision of 1 defender.
Pep Guardiola’s facet managed to finish their winless drought with victory over Leicester Metropolis final weekend because of targets from Bernando Silva and Erling Haaland. Regardless of that, Manchester Metropolis look effectively out of the title race at current and are some 14 factors behind leaders Liverpool .
Questions have been requested over Metropolis’s normally water-tight defence this season, with criticism largely solid the way in which of membership captain Kyle Walker. That has prompted speak of a brand new signing, with one 18-year-old catching the membership’s eye.
Actual Valladolid defender Juma Bah (Picture credit score: Getty Pictures)
Based on Sports activities Witness Premier League champions. Bah, 18, moved from his homeland of Sierra Leone in the summertime and remains to be solely registered as a mortgage signing.
World Soccer Administration manages the gifted defender and data near the company has ‘confirmed’ Manchester Metropolis’s rumoured curiosity.
Metropolis have leaked targets this season (Picture credit score: Getty Pictures)
“The truth that Manchester Metropolis have been asking questions on his contractual scenario with AIK signifies that they’ve a robust curiosity. They haven’t despatched a suggestion but, however they made contact a fortnight in the past, and for us, that’s large for Juma,” a supply advised Africa Foot.
A switch worth of £14m has been positioned on his head with Barcelona additionally mentioned to be monitoring his ongoing contract scenario. Nonetheless solely an adolescent, Bah has made 10 La Liga appearances this time period.
Requested if Manchester Metropolis will make signings this month, Pep mentioned : “I don’t know proper now, it’s not straightforward. It won’t be straightforward. Perhaps we signal, possibly we don’t signal anybody. The membership needs to be clever. Don’t do it simply to do it.
“We wish to add gamers for the scenario that we have now as a result of the gamers have constant accidents many occasions. Membership has to do it however I’m undecided if will probably be attainable.”
In FourFourTwo’s view , Bah has all of the makings of a tidy centre-back for the longer term and if Metropolis are wanting forward, signing the 18-year-old seems to be the appropriate step.
Manchester Metropolis are again in Premier League motion this weekend , as they tackle West Ham United on the Etihad Stadium.
