De Bruyne?

[Credo]

EXCLUSIVE: Manchester City line up £20m swoop for Chelsea reject Kevin De Bruyne

MANCHESTER CITY want to sign £20 million rated Chelsea reject Kevin De Bruyne.


Published: 22:30, Sat, December 20, 2014
By John Richardson


Manuel Pellegrini has target the Belgian as a must-have January signing


City boss Manuel Pellegrini has targeted the Belgian international (above) who only moved to Bundesliga side Wolfsburg in January, as a must have addition to a squad currently hit by injuries and financial fair play restrictions.

He believes that the 23-year-old attacking midfielder who was part of his country’s World Cup finals squad would be a useful addition to a side looking to retain their Premier League title.

De Bruyne joined Chelsea from Genk in January 2012 for £7 million and was heralded as a player destined for greatness at Stamford Bridge.

But the opportunities never came and after just three appearances he was shipped out on loan to Werder Bremen for a season before joining Wolfsburg for £18 million on a permanent deal just under 12 months ago, giving Chelsea a healthy profit.





But City scouts have been impressed by his displays in the Bundesliga and believe at the second time of asking he can become a big hit in the Premier League under Pellegrini.

Wolfsburg will want at least £20 million for the player who has an eye for goals - especially important for City who have been rocked by injuries to their main three strikers, Sergio Aguero, Edin Dzeko and Stevan Jovetic.

City still have to be careful on the buying front after being fined £49 million for breaching financial fair play rules and being restricted during the summer transfer window to a net spend of the same amount.

But De Bruyne will be within the acceptable budget if City can negotiate a deal around the same figure that Wolfsburg paid for the Belgian

If he's worth 20 million last Dec must be 21 million today :-)

 

[samdmc]

http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/...wechselt-zu-manchester-city.html#omsmtwkicker

Finally

 

[Higor Douglas]

 

[kbb]

Fee agreed, thank fuck for that.

Is that you reading this or being told separately by your source Ric?

 

[TRUE BLUE NO1]

last dragon...great film mate!;)

Hoping all these rumours are true!!......great signing for us if they are!!;)

 

[supercity88]

WAZ is as reliable as they come when it comes to Wolfsburg. Allofs gives them an interview most days. If they say it's done then it's done. No hard feeling at all towards him at all, he took us to the CL and second place, the DFB Pokal and played some wonderful football. Enjoy him ;)

My god you've made us work for him! All the best for the season ahead, we may meet in the CL! Wolfsburg have had a lot of stick on here but if we now have agreed everything the resentment will end. We certainly don't harbour hatred for you as we do Bayern!

 

[Higor Douglas]

 

[MCC]

WAZ up?

 

[bigkatnyc]

Catches Pogba thread in 3,2,1....

 

[Moveonlife]

Kristof Terreur: "my sources say they haven't agreed yet"