{"id":15460,"date":"2025-08-13T09:14:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T09:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=15460"},"modified":"2025-08-13T09:14:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T09:14:40","slug":"football-transfer-rumours-gianluigi-donnarumma-to-manchester-city-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=15460","title":{"rendered":"Football transfer rumours: Gianluigi Donnarumma to Manchester City? | Soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><span style=\"color:var(--drop-cap);font-weight:700\" class=\"dcr-15rw6c2\">I<\/span>f you had suggested, as <strong>Gianluigi Donnarumma<\/strong>\u2019s Brobdingnagian hands were extinguishing Arsenal\u2019s Champions League hopes in May, that Paris Saint-Germain would bundle him out the door marked Do One a few months later, you\u2019d have been laughed out of the football WhatsApp group faster than you could say \u2018Toxic Hipsters\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Who\u2019s laughing now? You are! Or at least you would be had the above scenario been a representation of reality rather than the Rumour Mill\u2019s exhausted imagination. Luis Enrique wants a different profile of goalkeeper \u2013 imagine if someone had used that phrase within earshot of Brian Clough or Bill Shankly \u2013 and Donnarumma may well be using his giant frame and even bigger aura in the Premier League this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>Chelsea<\/strong>, <strong>Manchester City<\/strong> and <strong>Manchester United<\/strong> are among the sides unable to believe their potential luck. If Pep Guardiola draws the 6ft 4ins straw, <strong>Ederson<\/strong> will be offloaded to Galatasaray faster than you can say \u201cwe need a different profile of goalkeeper, Brian\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>Real Madrid<\/strong> are considering cutting out the middle man, known in some cultures as Liverpool Football Club, by buying <strong>Adam Wharton<\/strong> direct from Crystal Palace. Any move is unlikely to happen this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>Liverpool<\/strong> have eyes on a different Eagle, Palace captain <strong>Marc Gu\u00e8hi<\/strong>. Parma\u2019s teenage centre-back <strong>Giovanni Leoni<\/strong> also gives good data and is a potential back-up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Palace immortal <strong>Eberechi Eze<\/strong> is still being courted by <strong>Spurs<\/strong> and <strong>Arsenal<\/strong>, with Thomas Frank\u2019s manic charisma putting Spurs in pole position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>Newcastle<\/strong>\u2019s <em>windus horribilis <\/em>will improve a bit if they secure the signing of <strong>Jacob Ramsey<\/strong> from Aston Villa, who in turn would like to re-sign <strong>Marco Asensio<\/strong> on loan from PSG.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>Bayer Leverkusen<\/strong> have their peepers trained on Brighton\u2019s <strong>Federico Buonanotte<\/strong>, while their forward <strong>Amine Adli<\/strong> could be on his way to Bournemouth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>Christopher Nkunku<\/strong> wants to leave Chelsea for Bayern Munich, while Manchester United\u2019s <strong>Alejandro Garnacho<\/strong> has reportedly (okay, okay, someone said so on Twitter.com) told his nearest and dearest that Chelsea are the only club he wants to join.<\/p>\n<p>skip past newsletter promotion<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1sbse14\">Sign up to <span>Football Daily<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1xjndtj\">Kick off your evenings with the Guardian&#8217;s take on the world of football<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dcr-1eusqlu\"><strong>Privacy Notice: <\/strong>Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"EmailSignup-skip-link-9\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-label=\"after newsletter promotion\" role=\"note\" class=\"dcr-jzxpee\">after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>Manchester United<\/strong>, meanwhile, are dreaming of Bayern defender <strong>Dayot Upamecano<\/strong>. Aren\u2019t we all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Last, and definitely not least because he looks a <em>damn <\/em>fine player, <strong>West Ham<\/strong> have reportedly had a \u00a330m offer for Southampton\u2019s <strong>Mateus Fernandes<\/strong> turned down. But like the haemorrhoids, they\u2019ll be back.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you had suggested, as Gianluigi Donnarumma\u2019s Brobdingnagian hands were extinguishing Arsenal\u2019s Champions League hopes in May, that Paris Saint-Germain would bundle him out the door marked Do One a few months later, you\u2019d have been laughed out of the football WhatsApp group faster than you could say \u2018Toxic Hipsters\u2019. Who\u2019s laughing now? You are!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[1485,2924,1413,9027,1570,9026,1544,3364],"class_list":{"0":"post-15460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-city","9":"tag-donnarumma","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-gianluigi","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-rumours","14":"tag-soccer","15":"tag-transfer"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}