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It s so crazy! Guardiola started the "poaching mode" after losing the championship, and rushed to buy the midfield duo for 180 million yuan

6:12am, 19 May 2025【Football】

After losing to Crystal Palace, Manchester City lost the fig leaf this season and encountered the embarrassment of not having a championship. Next, the "reverse" fig leaf is the bottom line that Guardiola talks about. They must protect a person who qualifies for the Champions League, otherwise the next plan will be completely messed up.

When talking about plans here, it refers to buying new people. For Guardiola, the fundamental reason for striving to turn the tables next season is to buy new ones to improve their strength and solve the difficulties of this season. Objectively speaking, Rodri encountered injuries, and De Bruyne's personal condition declined after he recovered from injury, which caused a big problem in the region, which caused great constraints on them. Therefore, Guardiola was indeed annoyed and started the former "poaching" model and returned to the former buying and buying mode.

According to the news confirmed by multiple media reports, Guardiola's favorite this time is a midfield duo, which is also the main countermeasure to relieve the pressure of injury and reduce the problems after De Bruyne left. Guardiola wants to buy Wilz from Leverkusen and Ryandes from AC Milan. This is also the object of having a scandal with Guardiola for too long, and everyone is familiar with it.

Wilz is the number one commander in the Bundesliga seasons and is also a talented newcomer. It is indeed very suitable to rely on his responsibility to take over as a Belgian master. Judging from his personal style and past records, he also has many similarities with De Bruyne. Ryandes confirmed in San Siro that although he is not as famous as Wilz and other candidates, he is definitely a good player. He has excellent running skills and excellent defensive skills. He has a lot of ideas when he is involved. This is indeed very similar to Rodri's game characteristics and value. Therefore, Guardiola highly recognizes him.

When asked whether buying so many people would cause congestion, especially when buying Nico Gonzalez, Guardiola was frank and would not have a close arrangement of each responsibility, and they would arrange it according to the new ideas after joining. This shows that Guardiola has been thinking about buying them for a long time and is very confident.

However, the price will definitely not be too cheap. Wiltz is the number one favorite in the transfer window this season. Guardiola is going to compete with Bayern, and its potential opponents include Liverpool under Slott and Real Madrid led by Xavi Alonso. Slott has the help of sponsors, while Harvey Alonso is his mentor. These two advantages are not available to Guardiola. They can only pay more transfers and pay more to attract him. This will increase costs and prices, and Leverkusen recognizes this.

Selling Ryandes is not a necessary option for Milan, so they will offer high prices. It is reported that Milan took out the quotes for Kaka during the transfer of the past, which is also their next bottom line, which must not be lower than 56.3 million pounds. I don't know what Guardiola would think about this. If you want to buy Wiltz and Ryandes, it is estimated that the cost and expenses of Manchester City will be about 180 million euros. This is indeed too expensive!

More importantly, they lost exactly 180 million euros in this winter transfer window! In the summer transfer window, he is unlikely to buy only these two. If there is another new purchase next, the overall cost will be estimated to exceed 400 million euros! This is indeed crazy.

Fortunately, their salary costs have dropped a lot after the Belgian masters left, and Bernardo may potentially leave the team, and newcomers may be sold. Guardiola is probably able to lift the restrictions on the financial card setting, which gives them confidence in buying newcomers.