Manchester City were heavily linked with a move for Kalidou Koulibaly.
However, their chiefs have not been put that rumor to rest. Omar Berrada, the chief of operations for football at Manchester City has detailed of how the club went about scouting for their new centre backs.
He told The Athletic: “The truth is, we never were in negotiations with his club at all about him.
“It was very interesting to see the amount of noise that was coming out from certain media outlets and social media.
“I smiled because there were certain instances where people were reporting that the deal was agreed, done, about to happen, he was going to be announced in a few days, when we were never in touch at all with Napoli about him.
“He’s definitely a top, top player, so some consideration was given to him, but really within some parameters that were very clear to us — and those parameters never came into play, so he was never really considered in that sense.”
City ended up with new centre back signings in Nathan Ake from Bournemouth and Ruben Dias from Benfica. It now remains to be seen whether they made the right decision.
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