Manchester City’s four-man transfer target list revealed ahead of summer window

A four-man transfer target list at Manchester City has been revealed in a new report this week detailing their interest in one Premier League club’s duo.

The newly-crowned Premier League champions are expected to once again be busy during the upcoming market, both in the form of arrivals and departures from the Etihad Stadium.

A number of their current players face very uncertain futures, and as such, Manchester City have been bracing themselves for a worst case scenario in which as many as four of Pep Guardiola’s first-team squad leave the club.

In midfield, all of Ilkay Gundogan, Bernardo Silva, and Kalvin Phillips are unknowns when it comes to playing in Sky Blue next season, with the Germany international’s contract expiring upon the conclusion of the ongoing season.

As for Bernardo Silva, the Portuguese midfielder has been eyeing a move away from City for a number of seasons now, while Phillips has struggled to adapt to Pep Guardiola’s playing style in his first season since joining from Leeds United last summer.

As such, City officials have drawn up a four-man shortlist that they could turn to, should they require the maximum amount of reinforcements at the club over the course of the coming months.

That is according to the information of The Mirror’s David McDonnell, who states that Pep Guardiola and Manchester City’s sporting director Txiki Begiristain have now drawn up a list of summer transfer targets, with the club being ‘keen’ to move early once the market opens for business on June 14.

It is claimed that Brighton & Hove Albion duo Alexis Mac Allister and Julio Enciso are accompanied by Bayern Munich’s Joshua Kimmich and RB Leipzig’s Josko Gvardiol on that shortlist at the Etihad Stadium.

Regarding the latter, any move for the Croatian is seemingly dependent on the future of Aymeric Laporte, with the Spain international keeping the door open to a possible exit should he look for improved game-time elsewhere this summer.

The Mirror report that City boss Guardiola has identified Gvardiol as the perfect replacement for Laporte, and should the right offer come in for the former Athletic Bilbao man and Etihad chiefs sanction a sale, then a move for the Croatia international could come to fruition.

For the time being, City’s focus remains very much on the remaining weeks of the ongoing season, with their campaign on a trophy front far from over as a number of major cup finals loom for the club.

In what could be a historic season for an English football team, Manchester City will follow up their Premier League title win with an FA Cup final against Manchester United, and a Champions League showdown with Inter in Istanbul next month.

Before then, City travel to Brentford in their final Premier League game of the season, in what will also be the final warm-up match before attentions will fully turn to the clash against Erik ten Hag and his squad at Wembley Stadium a week later.