Josko Gvardiol’s record transfer to Champions League winners Manchester City is perfect. The 21-year-old centre-back has joined Pep Guardiola’s team, as announced by German Bundesliga club RB Leipzig and the English Premier League club on Saturday. The Saxons should receive around 91 million francs plus bonuses for the Croatian international. “Due to his desire to change and the overall financial package, which makes him the most expensive defender in history, we decided, taking all parameters into account, to agree to the early change,” said Leipzig sports director Max Eberl in the message.
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Gvardiol came to RB from Dinamo Zagreb in 2020 for 18 million euros. So far, Harry Maguire, who went from Leicester City to Manchester United for 87 million euros in 2019, has held this record. Gvardiol actually only had an exit clause for his RB contract, which ran until the summer of 2027, for the coming summer. The fixed sum should be around 110 million Swiss francs. But Guardiola wanted the all-rounder in defense immediately and forced the change, which means that Nati star Manuel Akanji now has other top-class competition in addition to the already strong line-up of Rúben Dias, Nathan Aké, Aymeric Laporte and Taylor Harwood-Bellis. (dpa/huh)
2023-08-05 18:28:11
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