{"id":269228,"date":"2026-01-05T23:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T23:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/269228\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T23:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T23:19:07","slug":"manchester-city-weigh-up-move-for-guehi-after-gvardiol-breaks-shinbone-manchester-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/269228\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City weigh up move for Gu\u00e9hi after Gvardiol breaks shinbone | Manchester City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Manchester City are considering a move for Crystal Palace\u2019s Marc Gu\u00e9hi, with the south London club expected to demand around \u00a340m for the defender who is out of contract in the close season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Palace\u2019s fee for their captain is \u00a35m more than the price offered to Liverpool when the Merseyside club came close to signing him last summer. This reflects the disruption to Palace\u2019s season if Gu\u00e9hi does depart and their need to replace the 25-year-old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">City\u2019s interest comes after Josko Gvardiol sustained a tibial fracture, or a shinbone break, on his right leg in Sunday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jan\/04\/manchester-city-chelsea-premier-league-match-report\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1-1 draw with Chelsea<\/a> at the Etihad Stadium. The club said the 23-year-old will have surgery. While they did not put a timeline on his absence, he is likely to be out for an extended period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">R\u00faben Dias was also injured in the game, though his prognosis is yet to emerge, and with John Stones already absent, Pep Guardiola is without three frontline centre-backs. As the physical robustness of a fourth, Nathan Ak\u00e9, is also a concern, City have moved to target Gu\u00e9hi.<\/p>\n<p>Josko Gvardiol after suffering a broken shinbone in Sunday\u2019s 1-1 draw with Chelsea at the Etihad Stadium.  Photograph: Martin Rickett\/PA<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Yet as the player is a free agent in the close season whether he would choose to move now is unclear \u2013 a sizable signing-on fee would be lost if so. As a first choice in Thomas Tuchel\u2019s England team Gu\u00e9hi also needs to be sure of consistent playing time before this summer\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Beyond City, Gu\u00e9hi remains of interest to Liverpool, and he is also admired on the continent, with Bayern Munich and Real Madrid among potential suitors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Regarding Gvardiol, a City statement read: \u201cThe defender will have surgery later this week and assessment remains ongoing to ascertain the full extent of the injury and expected prognosis. Everyone at the club wishes Josko a speedy recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Croatia international said he would \u201cfight every day to return stronger\u201d, adding on X: \u201cThis is a hard moment, but it will never define me. I know who I am and where I come from.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City are considering a move for Crystal Palace\u2019s Marc Gu\u00e9hi, with the south London club expected to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-269228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115845055315959289","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}