Man City transfer news: Vitor Reis issues latest update on Etihad future after ‘shock’ loan to Girona

Vitor Reis has expressed his tendency to instrumentality to Manchester City and involvement a assertion for a first-team relation nether manager Pep Guardiola.

The 20-year-old was signed by the Citizens from Palmeiras for a reported £29.6m successful January 2025, earlier making his debut successful an FA Cup fourth-round triumph implicit Leyton Orient little than a period later.

Reis has played a full of 4 times for Man City, including his astir caller outing astatine the FIFA Club World Cup past summer, earlier helium was sent retired connected indebtedness to sister nine Girona for the 2025-26 campaign.

“When I recovered retired Man City were reasoning astir loaning me, I was a spot shocked - it wasn’t thing that crossed my mind,” Reis admitted during an interrogation with Brazilian quality outlet Globo Esporte.

“But aft I understood amended and spoke to people, I realised it'd beryllium bully for me, particularly for minutes, playing much games. At my age, I request to play. So it was a precise important decision, 100% correct. At Girona I'm precise happy. The radical are incredible. It was a precise bully choice.

“I support successful interaction with the Man City manager [Hugo Viana]. I speech a batch with City Group staff, they're often present successful Girona. For me, it's precise important to person that contact, that care, and I'm precise blessed they're close, ever trying to spot and recognize everything that's happening here.”

Brazil prima for the future? Reis wants Man City instrumentality aft awesome Girona indebtedness spell

Reis has since excelled arsenic a first-team regular for Girona alongside ex-Man United defender Daley Blind, starting 28 of the club’s 31 La Liga matches, and his awesome signifier has been recognised by Brazil brag Carlo Ancelotti, who called up the defender during March’s planetary break.

Although helium is yet to gain his archetypal elder planetary headdress for Brazil, Reis is successful contention to gain a spot successful Ancelotti’s last squad for the 2026 World Cup.

Reis besides has aspirations of breaking into Man City’s first-team squad and has made it wide that helium wants to make his crippled nether Guardiola.

“My intention, desire, is to instrumentality to Man City, to play and person space,” said Reis. “But I'll absorption connected the day-to-day, this extremity of the season, truthful erstwhile the infinitesimal for that speech comes, we tin beryllium calmly, with a wide mind.

“City was a precise beauteous communicative successful my life. When I arrived, it was benignant of a world check, conscionable similar with the [Brazil] nationalist team. You get and spot the players. I retrieve seeing my sanction adjacent to guys similar Rodri, Bernardo Silva… that made maine precise happy.

“It's a nine that ever tries to get maximum retired of players, that helped maine a lot. I learned galore things with Pep [Guardiola], a surreal feline successful presumption of mentality and understanding.”

Reis keen to reunite with Guardiola astatine Man City

Reis added: “When you get astatine Man City and spot Pep Guardiola, you consciousness fear, antithetic sensation, but connected the archetypal day, erstwhile I was presented, I had interaction with him.

“We were determination with my family, my agent… and erstwhile helium appeared, everyone was precise happy, adjacent much than me. After, I went up to his office, we talked, and that made maine consciousness much comfortable, welcomed.

"That archetypal interaction was precise important. Then time to time successful training, helium spoke to me, and I learned a lot, particularly however to recognize the game, marque things easier connected the pitch. He's a precise intelligent guy.

“If you bash what helium asks, your crippled flows better. And helium has a hunger to triumph that's surreal. Even aft winning everything, he's inactive connected the touchline with the aforesaid intensity, wanting to win, guiding everyone.

"It was a imagination to enactment with him and, God willing, I anticipation I tin instrumentality and acquisition that again.”

Guardiola springiness verdict connected “unbelievable” Reis connected indebtedness astatine Girona

Guardiola himself was asked astir the anticipation of Reis returning to Man City astatine a property league connected Tuesday, and helium said: "From my info successful Girona, helium was unbelievable. The crushed wherefore helium went there, the age, helium had possibly not galore options to play here, he's grown up arsenic a player, and helium did it.

"At the end, he's faced the champion strikers successful Spain, and it's not casual to woody with, and he's grown a lot. People successful Girona are truthful pleased, happy. The determination that's going to hap [on his Man City future], we are going to instrumentality astatine the extremity of the season.”

Reis has antecedently been likened to John Stones, who is expected to permission Man City when his declaration expires astatine the extremity of the season.

Nathan Ake has besides been tipped to depart the Etihad Stadium successful the summer, truthful Reis could beryllium reintegrated into City’s first-team plans if astatine slightest 1 of their centre-back options leaves.

Competition for places volition inactive beryllium fierce astatine Man City, though, arsenic January signing Marc Guehi, Abdukodir Khusanov, Ruben Dias and Josko Gvardiol - presently sidelined with a semipermanent wounded - volition each beryllium centre-back options astatine Guardiola’s disposal up of adjacent season.