Looking to the future: the German 'gem' that signed for Manchester City

Manchester City does not sleep on future projection issues and, after closing the transfer market in Europe, acquired the services of one of the 'jewels' of German football. The 'citizens' signed a young winger for the lower categories. In the coming days, he will arrive to join the reserve team and also be observed by Josep Guardiola, the head coach of the main team.

Farid Alfa-Ruprecht is the 16-year-old German attacker who comes from Hamburg to be part of the Sub-18 team of the 'citizens', according to Fabrizio Romano's notes. The transfer aims more towards projection for the coming years and also to have replacements for the club.

In this way, the team led by Pep Guardiola has surpassed the competition of Chelsea and Bayern Munich to sign the U17 international. Now, he will remain in the 'sky blue' academy waiting to move up to the first team during the season.

For this season, the English team has signed Julián Álvarez and Erling Haaland as main attacking weapons. The former came from River Plate in Argentina and the latter from Borussia Dortmund with a growing number of goals.

Among the names that have also arrived at the club, we can mention the acquisition of Kalvin Phillips, who has improved the midfield, coming from Leeds United. In addition, Manuel Akanji arrived on the last day to reinforce the defense.

How much did Manchester City pay for Julián Álvarez?

No official figure for the transfer from River Plate has been revealed, but the Argentine press mentions about 25 million dollars and a contract for five and a half years.

Guardiola and words of praise for Haaland

After the new victory of the sky blue team against Nottingham Forest, coach Pep Guardiola praised the Norwegian striker. "I know that scoring makes him happy, but I think what he wants is to win. If he can break records but we don't win, I'm sure he wouldn't be happy," he said in a press conference.

Likewise, he spoke about the abilities of the striker who has nine goals in four matches in the English league. "He has a special talent, an incredible goalscoring instinct. He hadn't even touched the ball, but he scored with his first touch!" he mentioned.

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