Here We Go: Manchester City reach agreement over €70 million signing, confirms Fabrizio Romano | OneFootball

Manchester City have reached an agreement over their first big-money signing of the 2025 summer transfer window, reveals Fabrizio Romano.

Etihad Stadium transfer bosses are widely expected to make a number of alterations to the playing squad this summer with a minimum of three additions being tipped in various quarters, with priority targets having been named.

In the attacking midfield ranks, Manchester City are intensely pursuing a move for Lyon and France international Rayan Cherki, having withdrawn interest in Bayer Leverkusen’s Florian Wirtz earlier in the summer due to concerns over the finances of a prospective deal.

There is also a pursuit of a new left-back and club officials are confident over doing a deal with Wolverhampton Wanderers for their Algerian defender Rayan Ait-Nouri over the course of the coming days.

The belief from within Manchester City is that three new names could be present with Pep Guardiola’s squad at this summer’s FIFA Club World Cup in the United States, as such signed and sealed before the June 10 deadline in a mini-transfer market for this year.

Now, as revealed by transfer market insider Fabrizio Romano, Tijjani Reijnders to Manchester City has a verbal agreement in place with a deal now being finalised for a package worth around €70 million.

With personal terms between the midfielder and Etihad Stadium officials sealed ‘days ago’, Romano adds that only the various formal steps will now follow with a deal termed ‘Here We Go’ by the Italian journalist.

Additional reporting from The Athletic’s David Ornstein has revealed that Reijnders has agreed to a five-year contract at Manchester City, who will pay an initial €55 million for the Dutchman plus add-ons.

The 26-year-old midfielder is currently away on international duty with the Netherlands over the course of the next few days, with FIFA World Cup qualifiers on the agenda for him and his teammates against Finland and Malta.

Reijnders is then expected to travel to Manchester to complete the relevant media duties with his new club before a formal announcement is made ahead of the summer’s Club World Cup and initial three-game group stage.

Beyond the likes of Rayan Ait-Nouri and Rayan Cherki, it remains to be seen how much further City’s transfer business will stretch this summer, with a right-sided full-back also being targeted but an awareness that a deal for their priority name will be difficult to complete.

Manchester City are believed to have made Newcastle United and England international Tino Livramento their go-to name, but realise that they will need to sanction a significant fee to tempt the Magpies into a sale of a player they firmly want to retain in their own squad.