Bravo told the club’s website, www.mcfc.co.uk: “I’m very proud to be joining Manchester City”.
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“He has experience and great leadership qualities and is in the prime of his life”.
However, he did make his first appearance of the season in Wednesday night’s Champions League clash with Steaua Bucharest, keeping a clean sheet and finishing the match with a flawless pass completion rate.
Earlier, Barcelona completed the signing of Dutch global goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen from Ajax Amsterdam.
Sunderland manager David Moyes has admitted that he is in the market for a new goalkeeper after Vito Mannone was ruled out for three months.
“Some good and some bad, but I try to be honest”.
Chile goalkeeper Claudio Bravo was the latest to arrive on Thursday from Barcelona and Guardiola says his recruitment drive is over. He played at Real Sociedad and then for two years in Barcelona where he played some important games and created something special with his global team-mates at Chile [by winning the Copa America].
Yet Bravo appears to be taking nothing for granted and expects to challenge Hart – who, for the time being at least, remains at the club – and Willy Caballero for the jersey.
“I can not deny it’s something special for me to return to Barcelona – I grew up there, to play there at 13 to become a footballer”. I was honest with Joe.
However, when asked about what it felt like to get such a great reception from City supporters, The BBC reported that he said: “That was a really special night for me”.
Hart is set to be named in Sam Allardyce’s first England squad, but the new manager has expressed his concern at Hart’s lack of first team football.
But any deal is dependent on City footing the bill for the bulk of Hart’s salary, which they are willing to do to ensure the England No.1 can find a new club. So for Joe, Willy and Angus, it won’t be the same one who is always on the bench.
City want a sizeable loan fee of around £7m for Hart, who also earns around £120,000-a-week.
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Hart’s salary of €3.8m per season at Manchester City is a problem for Torino and they are in no financial position to meet that figure, but the club are hoping to find a solution.
