Pep Guardiola hands encouraging Gianluigi Donnarumma update with Ederson admission | OneFootball

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has explained Ederson’s absence from the club’s matchday squad to face Wolves amid uncertainty over the Brazilian’s future.

Ederson has been heavily linked with a potential move to Galatasaray in recent months, with the Turkish giants reported to have made an opening bid in the region of €10 million for the 31-year-old in recent days.

City are expected to turn down the offer, which falls well below their valuation of the six-time Premier League winner, who is entering the final year of his current deal at the Etihad Stadium and is believed to be keen on a move away from England.

Sources have indicated that Manchester City will be open to sanctioning a sale for Ederson for an offer in the region of €25 million as negotiations continue with Galatasaray, who are keen on adding the Brazil international to their ranks in this transfer window.

After failing to engineer a transfer to Saudi Arabia last summer, Ederson remained Manchester City’s first-choice goalkeeper last term and was as of earlier this summer, the former Benfica man’s comments suggested that he had made peace with the fact that he will be seeing out the entirety of his contract.

However, despite not actively wanting to sell the shotstopper, Manchester City are open to selling Ederson for what they believe is a fair price for a key cog of Pep Guardiola’s side since his arrival from Portugal in the summer of 2017.

Meanwhile, City have identified Paris Saint-Germain and Italy international Gianluigi Donnarumma as an ideal replacement for Ederson, who did not travel with the club for their 4-0 thrashing of Wolves to begin the 2025-26 Premier League campaign on Saturday evening.

Guardiola suggested earlier in the week that Ederson was dealing with fitness concerns and would start if he were able to prove his fitness in time. However, it was boyhood blue and summer signing James Trafford – who returned to the Etihad Stadium from Burnley this summer – who kept a clean sheet for City at the Molineux Stadium.

Manchester City’s official channels indicated that Ederson had been ill leading up to the game, with Guardiola further explaining his number one’s absence from the trip after the 4-0 rout of Wolves on Saturday evening.

“I don’t have info. Today, I don’t have info. Yesterday I saw his (Ederson’s) illness with gastroenteritis, and it’s the only (thing) I know. And after I didn’t speak with Hugo (Viana, Manchester City’s director of football) and the club, so I don’t have any news,” Guardiola said after the game.

“Always I have my theory; if a player wants to leave, he has to leave – but on the conditions of the club. Because if we wanted to sign that player, we pay the conditions of a club.

“But the final decision, and the way they make deals, belongs 100% to the club and not to me. So I don’t know what’s going to happen (with Ederson) in the next two weeks.”

Having overhauled their goalkeeping department already this summer with the additions of Trafford and third-choice goalkeeper Marcus Bettinelli, City are expected to remain in talks with Galatasaray to find a resolution on Ederson’s future.

After impressing on his full Premier League debut for Manchester City, Trafford is expected to retain his place in net as Ederson resolves his future in the final weeks of the summer transfer window.