Man City set sights on Josko Gvardiol transfer as Bernardo Silva yet to find ideal move

Here are your Manchester City headlines for Tuesday, July 4, 2023.

Josko Gvardiol remains the priority for Manchester City in the summer transfer window as they work to close a deal.

Pep Guardiola is looking to add the 21-year-old defender to his squad for the new season after finding success with four centre-backs across his backline. City currently have nine senior defenders on their books in the senior squad, but Joao Cancelo, Aymeric Laporte and Kyle Walker could leave while 18-year-old Rico Lewis is still learning.

RB Leipzig want £85m for Croatian star Gvardiol plus additional performance-related payments and City are not yet ready to meet that valuation despite advanced talks, but all parties still expect a deal can be done. Securing Gvardiol remains the biggest piece of business for City in the market this summer as they look to build on their Treble-winning campaign.

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The Manchester City midfield revolution could not be as wild as it perhaps looked at the beginning of the summer.

Ilkay Gundogan may have departed but Kalvin Phillips has made clear his intention to stay and fight and there is yet to be movement towards the exit door from Bernardo Silva. The Portugal international, fresh from celebrating his wedding, is looking to leave for the third summer in a row but still hasn't found the club that will suit all parties.

That doesn't mean that Bernardo definitely won't leave, and City are keeping their options open in the transfer market as they wait. There is no shortage of midfielders that Pep Guardiola rates, and after showing enough interest in Declan Rice to put a £90m bid together before conceding to Arsenal there are still several targets; Celta midfielder Gabri Veiga is one of