He would eventually opt to join English Premier League side Manchester City and just like Claudio Bravo and Nolito, the deciding factor in the decision was Pep Guardiola.
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Yet any talk of the Blues negotiating the 2016/17 unbeaten – and matching Arsenal’s incredible achievement from 13 years ago – are surely premature in the extreme?
But he will not play in the Premier League re-match with Swansea, Wednesday’s Champions League trip to Celtic or next Sunday’s Premier League clash with Tottenham at White Hart Lane.
“But we have to expect that maybe Swansea will play with five at the back because against Chelsea he played with five”. The rest is up to Pep and fate.
“City skipper Vincent Kompany is receiving treatment for a groin injury sustained in Wednesday’s EFL Cup win over Swansea”, read a statement on the club’s official website. We have good, clever players that are trying to absorb all those factors to put in our game.
Fernandinho became the latest to praise the Belgium global, who has also impressed manager Pep Guardiola. “He has qualities that are very rare in the world, so we try to involve him in every game”.
Seluk, who numbers on his client roster largely eastern European or African players plying their trade in eastern Europe, said Guardiola had treated long serving City players with total disrespect. “I don’t know him personally yet but he already made me feel very safe about his project there”.
“He won with Barcelona many titles but Yaya also won the same titles with Barcelona (Toure was in fact sold in 2010 and Guardiola stayed till 2012 accruing more silverware)”.
Fernandinho added: “The season starts now for us. We need to finish out strong though going into the playoffs”.
“I watched their game against Chelsea and they played very well”.
“We then have Celtic away in the Champions League and of course it is always hard to play there”.
One wonders, depending on the amount of games he is given as Guardiola seeks to temper the demand on the youngster, just how prolific he can be when on the end of service from Silva, Sterling, De Bruyne and co.
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Jonathan is ESPN FC’s Manchester City correspondent.
