Pep Guardiola – Manchester City player will not join up for US pre-season tour
Sadio Mane of Bayern Munich and Joao Cancelo of Manchester City during the preseason friendly match between Manchester City and Bayern Muenchen at…
One Manchester City player will not be joining up with the squad in the US for pre-season.
Pep Guardiola has overseen two games so far; the first against Celtic in North Carolina and the second against AC Milan in New York.
City lost both games. But as everyone knows, results in pre-season are not particularly important.
This is a chance for Guardiola to take a look at some of his fringe and young players, with several first-team stars still on vacation following their exploits at international tournaments.
One player who is currently on holiday is Joao Cancelo, who is still not in the plans of the manager after the pair fell out midway through the 2022/23 season.
Joao Cancelo set to miss Manchester City’s pre-season tour of the US
Joao Cancelo and Antonio Silva of Portugal applaud the fans following the final whistle of the UEFA EURO 2024 quarter-final match between Portugal …
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It has been reported by SPORT today that Cancelo will not participate in Manchester City’s tour of the US.
This follows an earlier claim that Guardiola did not want the player to be involved.
The players who featured at Euro 2024 are set to join up with the squad in the coming days. But it seems Cancelo, who played for Portugal along with Ruben Dias, Bernardo Silva and Matheus Nunes, will not be accompanying the rest of the squad.
This is because he is currently the subject of a pursuit by Barcelona, who want to re-sign him after his loan spell last season.
It is a tricky situation because Cancelo only wants to rejoin Barca, but the Spanish giants cannot afford to buy him permanently.
They are trying to facilitate a loan move at the moment. Supposedly, they would be willing to pay City a £7 million loan fee.
It is stated by SPORT that a move could come to fruition in the final days of the window.
Cancelo apparently won’t be joining City’s tour of the US, but he will report back to the club once they return, if he hasn’t already been offloaded.
Cancelo’s days at Man City seem over
So Cancelo is set to miss Manchester City‘s pre-season tour of the US, and it probably doesn’t come as any real surprise.
Ever since the player headed out on loan to Bayern Munich following the reported falling out with Guardiola, there has been no indication that there will be a way back for him.
SPORT say in their report that Guardiola does not want the player in his squad, and it does seem a question of when he will leave this summer not if.
But it remains to be seen if Cancelo can actually be sold. All the indications so far this summer have been that City will struggle.
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