Transfer Toss: Man City Fancy Alvaro Negredo, Hot On The Heels Of £24m-Rated Sevilla Striker

Chris Wright

4th, July 2013

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By Chris Wright

Spain Soccer La Liga

Negredo: Going for a song?

With Carlos Tevez dancing his way to Juventus already this summer, Manchester City are reportedly willing to spend the majority of the £27million the Argentinian would’ve cost them in wages and bonuses in the final year of his contract on bringing in Sevilla and sometime Spain striker Alvaro Negredo.

Negredo, who finished last season with 25 goals in 34 La Liga games for Sevilla, is supposedly rated at £24million by the Spanish club, though City are hoping to whittle that valuation down by at least a couple of million quid – with Manuel Pellegrini said to be adamant that the 27-year-old forward is the man he wants to lead his line at The Etihad next season.

He’s certainly prolific at domestic level and a dead-eye finisher when he’s got the wind in his sails, but Negredo’s work rate doesn’t come close to comparing with Tevez’s (when he wasn’t swanning off on his mid-season golfing excursions of course).

What do you reckon people? Would Negredo prove a shrewd bit of business for a side lacking an out-and-outer, or should Pellegrini set his £24million sights elsewhere?

Posted in La Liga, Man City, Newsnow, Transfers & Rumours

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  1. Piesfanfromgermany says:

    And what about Dzeko? He’s the same kind of player. Why should you spend that much money on Negredo who also is the same age as Dzeko.

  2. VINNIE says:

    Bit expensive but would be a good signing to complement navas and aguero, Dzeko is overrated cant scrore against the big teams when he starts and rightly deserves his spot on the bench as a super-sub

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