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Manchester City tipped to sign Arsenal-linked ‘phenomenon’ for £50m as potential new Rodri
The summer of 2025 is likely to be one of significant change at Premier League champions Manchester City.
As things stand, Kevin de Bruyne and Ilkay Gundogan will be free-agents. There are serious question marks, too, over the futures of Kyle Walke🍌r and Jack Grealish.
Entering their 30s, is this the time where Manchester City – perhaps guilty of resting on their laurels and relying upon a core group of long-serving stars for longer than they really should have – start to think about a succession plan for Bernardo Silva and Mateo ༺Kovacic?
𝄹With the 2024/25 campaign feeling like one battle too many for Pep Guardiola’s battle-scarred squad💦, Man City feel overdue for a rebuild.
TBR understands that Manchester City could replace Kyle Walker🌱 with Jeremie Frimpong, an academy graduate now pulling up trees with Bayer Leverkusen. Espanyol’s Omar El Hilali is another on Man City’s wishꦐlist.
Frimpong’s Leverkusen teammate Florian Wirtz and Bayern Munich’s Jamal Musiala are potential D༺e Bruyne𝔉 successors, meanwhile.
And, with the burden on Erling Haaland’s shoulders heavier than ever following the sale of Julian Alvarez to Atletico Madrid, TBR can confirm that Man City ﷺare watching PඣSV Eindhoven striker Ricardo Pepi.
Manchester City move tipped for Lille starlet Ayyoub Bouaddi
Pepi, interes𒁃tingly, likened himself to Haaland while back home in the USA with FC Dallas.
And with Lille wonderkid Ayyoub Bouaddi generating quite the buzz across the channel – potenಌtially🦄 the next rising start to leave LOSC after Leny Yoro – could he become the next to swap the Stade Pierre Mauroy for Manchester?
Yvan Le Mee thinks so.
While not Bouaddi’s agent, Le Mee is a representative very tuned in to t🥂he next generation of potential footballing superstars. And he feels that it is only a matter of time before the 17-year-old France Under-21 international is strutting his stuff for one of Europe’s bonafide A-listers.
🌊 reports that Arsenal, ꦚLiverpool and Chelsea are all interested. A race Man City could yet join in the near future.
“He’s a 17-year-old phenomenon,” Le Mee tells . “He is ౠvery strong.
“I think he’s already excluded from 🌠[moving to] Italy for economic reasons, for the simple fact that I imagine teams like Real Madrid, Manchꦗester City or Bayern Munich will arrive. In my opinion, he will leave for figures of 60 million euros [£50 million] and up.”
“I’m not his agent but, as I was saying, in m🙈y opinion he’s already out of the market for Italian teams.”
Likened to Raphael Varane but similar to Rodri
Bouaddi, like Yoro, is ♉already a regular in the Lille team at the age of just 17.
The teenager has made 11 Ligue 1 appearances already in 2024/25, impressing with his awareness and composure in the sort of deep-🍃lying role Bal𒈔lon D’Or winner Rodri has made his own at the Etihad Stadium.
Bouaddi’s average of two successful tackl⛦es per game is almost identical to the numbers Rodri put up in the Premier Leagu🌊e last term.
Some have sugg🐬ested, meanwhile, that Bouaddi may be Liꦰlle’s most impressive homegrown talent since the great Eden Hazard.
“Tall, at ease in midfield, with great technique and an💙 eye for the game,” Georges Tournay, who coached Bouaddi in his younger days, tells while drawing comparisons with a certain 🔥one-time RC Lens wonderkid.
“He was destinedꦕ for success, a bit like Raphael V💖arane.”