Fabrizio Romano provides transfer updates on five Manchester City stars linked with summer exits | OneFootball

Manchester City will be weighing up the futures of five first-team players in particular, Fabrizio Romano has detailed in a new report.

The latest transfer developments come as Pep Guardiola and his Manchester City side aim to get their season back on track as soon as possible, having endured damaging form that has brought an end to their Carabao Cup, Champions League, and Premier League hopes.

With that being said, there remains plenty for the club to achieve in the final weeks and months of the campaign, with the priority now being to qualify for next season’s Champions League via a top-four finish in the English top-flight.

There also remains a chance of silverware to end the campaign on a high, as Manchester City continue to compete in the FA Cup with a quarter-final clash against Bournemouth on the horizon at the end of this month.

Beyond the on-field duties of the reigning Premier League champions, plenty of work is ongoing to plan for the future, with the upcoming summer transfer window expected to continue from the widespread business fulfilled in the winter market.

That is likely to see a number of new additions brought into Pep Guardiola’s squad to ensure that the squad can return to the very forefront of challenging for major honours, while also removing some existing stars through loan and permanent exits.

According to the information of Fabrizio Romano, offering a widespread update on numerous players, a transfer for goalkeeper Ederson could be revived in the summer, and such a switch is a ‘serious possibility being discussed’ following Saudi Arabian interest last summer.

On the subject of John Stones, it is stressed that a sale by Manchester City is not guaranteed or decided at all so far, but talks will take place with the England international’s representatives to understand his intentions.

Another name with an uncertain future is Matheus Nunes, who Fabrizio Romano says has no guarantee of staying at Manchester City and could leave in the coming months in case of a ‘good proposal’ brought by agent Jorge Mendes in the summer transfer window.

Bernardo Silva has been linked with an exit from the Etihad for several consecutive seasons, and Romano now says that he has once again a candidate to leave the club at the end of the season, with the aforementioned super agent due to meet with City in the coming weeks.

The contractual situation of Kevin De Bruyne continues to cause uncertainty too, and Fabrizio Romano reveals that an exit is a strong possibility with MLS clubs ‘calling on a weekly basis’ and Saudi Pro League sides also ‘attentive to developments’.

For now, it is stressed that officials from the Premier League champions have not definitively informed Kevin De Bruyne that their association with one another will end at the end of the season, but talks over a new deal are yet to commence or be proposed by either party.

Pep Guardiola recently hinted during a press conference that the number of departures, particularly concerning the more ageing midfield stars, may not reach the numbers reported in the media of late.

The Manchester City boss is seemingly conscious of valuing the importance of experience when it comes to integrating younger stars into an environment that has been so stable for the best part of a decade.

“Listen, I cannot figure out my period here without players like Gundo (Ilkay Gundogan), like Bernie (Bernardo Silva), like Kevin (De Bruyne), all these guys. I’m more, more, more than grateful like you cannot imagine,” Guardiola recently told reporters.

He continued, “The success we had as managers is not interpreted, visualised, seen without these players… When they’re maybe upset or sad because they don’t play, I can understand them.

“It’s impossible; the legacy we’re going to leave behind for the next ones, players, managers, sporting directors, CEOs, and the last decades, it happened for that type of players. And there are a lot, not just these three or four…

“Like John [Stones], like players not here anymore… But the reality is today, try to win tomorrow and the next games.”