Man City transfer news: James McAtee on radar of Bundesliga giants?

Manchester City reportedly look the imaginable of receiving accrued involvement successful James McAtee during 2025.

At the opening of the season, Pep Guardiola made a constituent of stating that helium wanted to support the academy postgraduate successful his first-team squad connected the backmost of a indebtedness spell with Sheffield United.

However, contempt City enduring their worst tally of signifier successful caller representation and suffering a wide array of fittingness issues, the 22-year-old has hardly been used.

Although the playmaker played a cardinal relation disconnected the substitutes' seat during Sunday's 2-0 triumph astatine Leicester City, helium has made conscionable 3 starts and six outings arsenic a replacement each season.

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Which Bundesliga elephantine is chasing McAtee?

With City successful a presumption wherever aggregate youngsters are appearing connected the substitutes' bench, McAtee whitethorn not needfully invitation involvement successful the England Under-21 international.

Nevertheless, according to the Daily Mail, Bayer Leverkusen are monitoring the concern up of perchance making an approach.

The study suggests that the Bundesliga champions are contemplating whether to effort to instrumentality vantage of conscionable 18 months remaining connected McAtee's contract.

Given his existent predicament regarding crippled time, it appears highly improbable that McAtee volition beryllium prepared to widen his existent deal.

RB Leipzig, Borussia Dortmund, Fiorentina and Bologna are besides said to beryllium admirers of a subordinate who is expected to prioritise regular shot implicit committing his aboriginal to City.

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What volition beryllium Guardiola's stance?

Guardiola has seldom prevented players from leaving the Etihad Stadium providing that City person their desired interest for their signature.

In the lawsuit of McAtee, it is hard to find what his asking terms whitethorn beryllium erstwhile featuring for conscionable 359 minutes since the commencement of August.

That said, the study alleges that City whitethorn request successful the portion of £25m if they are to springiness the greenish airy to a sale, peculiarly successful January.

The likes of Nottingham Forest, Brentford, West Ham United and Crystal Palace are Premier League teams who besides clasp an interest.

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