Man City transfer news: Enzo Maresca to face immediate “conundrums” as manager amid £70m rumours

Tino Livramento’s wounded grounds could hinder his chances of securing a big-money determination from Newcastle United to Manchester City this summer, a erstwhile Citizens defender has exclusively told Sports Mole.

The 23-year-old is regarded by galore arsenic 1 of the champion full-backs successful the Premier League erstwhile acceptable and firing, but his persistent fittingness and wounded problems person go a concern.

Livramento began his elder vocation astatine Southampton wherever helium sustained an ACL wounded that ruled him retired for 12 months and forced him to miss 51 matches betwixt 2022 and 2023.

A instrumentality to fittingness and a affirmative tally of signifier was past rewarded with a £32m transportation to Newcastle successful August 2023, but helium has since been plagued with much wounded issues astatine St James’ Park.

Livramento has suffered 2 abstracted genu injuries, 1 hamstring occupation and 1 thigh contented since the commencement of the 2025-26 season, limiting him to conscionable 14 Premier League starts.

Despite playing successful lone 4 of Newcastle’s last 17 top-flight fixtures successful 2026, Livramento earned a call-up to Thomas Tuchel’s England squad for this summer’s World Cup.

However, the full-back has since been forced to retreat and volition miss the tourney after sustaining a calf teardrop during grooming past weekend.

Livramento is idiosyncratic who has regularly been linked with a transportation to Man City, who attempted to motion him past summertime pursuing the departure of Kyle Walker.

The Citizens yet decided against gathering Newcastle’s £70m asking price and Matheus Nunes was transformed into an effectual right-back nether Pep Guardiola, with Rico Lewis providing cover.

Enzo Maresca is expected to beryllium named arsenic Guardiola’s successor this summertime and it is understood that Man City volition see recruiting a caller right-back up of the 2026-27 campaign.

However, erstwhile Man City and England defender Danny Mills has questioned whether the nine volition prosecute a determination for injury-prone Livramento astatine a clip erstwhile they whitethorn request to look for a caller specializer right-back to supply contention oregon a imperishable solution for Nunes.

Should Livramento’s wounded grounds beryllium a interest to Man City?

“Clubs volition ever look astatine a player’s wounded record. They’ll see whether they’re getting worth for money,” Mills told Sports Mole. “Defensively, you ever privation a settled broadside and players that are robust.

“Obviously, recruitment for Man City is going to beryllium interesting, successful presumption of seeing what Enzo Maresca wants to bash with that squad and however he's going to physique connected what helium has. Is Tino Livramento a right-back oregon is helium a left-back? He tin play astatine both.

Mills added: “They haven't truly replaced Kyle Walker since helium left, truthful they astir apt bash request a specialist.

“City mightiness beryllium thinking: ‘You struggled a small spot with injuries passim the season. You've present picked up different one. That means you're going to beryllium retired for 5 oregon six weeks. Do you deed pre-season connected time one, oregon bash we person to modify that? Does that past permission you down a small bit?’

“So successful presumption of antiaircraft options, there’s a fewer conundrums for Man City and Enzo Maresca to contemplate.”

Livramento not the lone right-back connected Man City’s radar

It is thought that Newcastle - who generated £69m from the merchantability of Anthony Gordon past period - are nether nary contiguous unit to portion ways with Livramento, who inactive has 2 years remaining connected his contract.

Livramento is inactive thought to beryllium a subordinate who Man City chiefs appreciate, but they besides person different right-back targets connected their radar, including Feyenoord’s Givairo Read and Atalanta BC’s Marco Palestra.

Citizens manager of shot Hugo Viana is presently prioritising the summation of a caller centre-midfielder, though, and the nine is said to beryllium confident that they tin onslaught an agreement with Nottingham Forest implicit a grounds woody for Elliot Anderson.

Danny Mills was speaking to Sports Mole connected behalf of betTOM.