{"id":187548,"date":"2025-06-15T23:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T23:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/187548\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T23:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T23:36:10","slug":"man-city-should-now-make-a-move-for-20m-tottenham-player-who-pep-guardiola-gave-advice-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/187548\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City should now make a move for \u00a320m Tottenham player who Pep Guardiola gave advice to"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Manchester City have every reason to be satisfied with their summer business so far, with Rayan Cherki, Tijjani Reijnders and Rayan Ait-Nouri all addressing priority positions in their squad<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Reijnders revealed his conversation with Manchester City<\/a> centered around the Sky Blues needing to sign a brand-new eight, a position he will now likely play for them next season.<\/p>\n

Similarly, Cherki is set to replace Kevin De Bruyne, even if City do not view the Frenchman as the sole successor to the Napoli superstar.<\/p>\n

With Manchester City<\/a> lacking a natural left-back in their ranks, Ait-Nouri\u2019s addition could prove to be an excellent one next season.<\/p>\n

But City still need to sign a right-back to replace the outgoing Kyle Walker but Tino Livramento is happy at Newcastle United<\/a> and has shown no willingness to play his football elsewhere despite their interest.<\/p>\n

Man City should make a move for Tottenham star Djed Spence<\/p>\n

While Manchester City hold Livramento in high esteem<\/a>, if he ends up staying at Newcastle, Djed Spence could be an excellent alternative for Pep Guardiola\u2019s men for a number of reasons.<\/p>\n

Firstly, at the backend of last season, Guardiola played two high-flying full-backs in Matheus Nunes and Nico O\u2019Reilly, a role that would suit Spence as he first came to prominence as a right wing-back at Nottingham Forest.<\/p>\n

\"TottenhamPhoto by Jose Breton\/Pics Action\/NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The Catalan tactician might have to stick with such a setup in the following campaign as well if he intends to play both Omar Marmoush and Phil Foden in the same side as Cherki, with the pair potentially deployed as a pair of inside forwards.<\/p>\n

Spence\u2019s crossing, ability to carry the ball over large distances and direct approach first came to light when Forest beat Arsenal 1-0 in the FA Cup in 2022, traits he still has in abundance.<\/p>\n

Ait-Nouri could be tasked to hug the touchline on the left flank and the \u00a320 million (BBC Sport<\/a>) man could perform the same role on the right-hand side.<\/p>\n

Secondly, the Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> man is brilliant defensively as well, blessed with searing pace, a knack for timing his challenges perfectly and balancing aggression and a calculative approach in one-v-one situations.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, Spence is equally comfortable playing on both flanks and Pep Guardiola has a history of fancying versatile players, from Philipp Lahm to Joao Cancelo.<\/p>\n\nDJED SPENCE\u2019S POSITIONS PLAYED<\/td>\nAPPEARANCES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nRIGHT-BACK<\/td>\n104<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLEFT-BACK<\/td>\n34<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nRIGHT WING-BACK<\/td>\n79<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLEFT WING-BACK<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCENTRE-BACK<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

While Manchester City are interested in signing Wesley Franca<\/a> as well, it might be safer to sign a Premier League-proven right-back instead who can deliver in the here and now.<\/p>\n

Pep Guardiola gave Djed Spence an important piece of advice<\/p>\n

After Manchester City\u2019s 1-0 victory against Tottenham last season, Guardiola revealed he gave Spence some advice.<\/p>\n

Pep Guardiola said via talkSPORT<\/a>: \u201cWhy do you run too much? You should be more calm.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c[Destiny] Udogie is quite similar, the pace of this team is difficult to\u2026 Maybe\u00a0Liverpool, but they are unbelievable, unbearable, and every time they have the ball and run, they\u2019re unstoppable; Spence, Pedro Porro, Udogie, [Dejan] Kulusevski, Son [Heung-min].\u201d<\/p>\n

Perhaps Guardiola might instruct Spence to be calmer on the whole if he were to ever sign for Manchester City.<\/p>\n

However, with Thomas Frank now Spurs\u2019 manager, perhaps the Englishman would like to prove his worth under the Dane instead of looking for an exit.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City have every reason to be satisfied with their summer business so far, with Rayan Cherki, Tijjani…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[29929,94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-187548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-djed-spence","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114690010963867274","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}