{"id":351642,"date":"2025-08-17T12:48:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T12:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/351642\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T12:48:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T12:48:19","slug":"rico-lewis-wants-to-stay-at-manchester-city-amid-nottingham-forest-interest-manchester-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/351642\/","title":{"rendered":"Rico Lewis wants to stay at Manchester City amid Nottingham Forest interest | Manchester City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rico Lewis has said he has no intention of leaving Manchester City<\/a> this summer and believes missing out on the Premier League title last season has \u201cfuelled the fire\u201d in Pep Guardiola\u2019s squad.<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old England defender is the subject of interest from Nottingham Forest but Lewis, who joined City at the age of eight, indicated that he would prefer to stay at the Etihad. \u201cFor me, I\u2019ve never ever seen myself leaving,\u201d Lewis said after helping City to a 4-0 victory at Wolves on Saturday.<\/a> \u201cI\u2019ve always wanted to play for City. It\u2019s my dream. When I\u2019m playing with the kind of players that I\u2019m playing with, it brings out the best of me. So I\u2019m so happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lewis made 44 appearances in all competitions last season but fell behind Matheus Nunes \u2013 typically a midfielder \u2013 in the pecking order at right-back. Lewis has since spoken to Guardiola about his future. \u201cEveryone wants that assurance and security, but at the end of day, it\u2019s on me,\u201d Lewis added. \u201cIt\u2019s on me to perform. Last season I played more than the season before. So it\u2019s always the same goal \u2013 to become an established player.\u201d<\/p>\n

Guardiola signalled to Lewis that he remains a key part of his plans by preferring him to Nunes in the win at Molineux, in which Erling Haaland scored twice and Tijjani Reijnders and Rayan Cherki both found the net on their league debuts.<\/p>\n

Discussing the pain of last season and City\u2019s ambition to win a fifth title in six years, Lewis said: \u201cAs much as we want to forget about last season, obviously it\u2019s in the back of our minds and maybe we could say it\u2019s fuelled the fire in us, but we\u2019re so focused on this season. We feel so much stronger together as a team. There\u2019s always hunger but I think there could be additional hunger now that it\u2019s not our crown to defend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Forest targeted Lewis as part of a double swoop of City academy talents with plans to sign the versatile defender and James McAtee but have only sealed a deal for the latter, for \u00a330m. \u201cI feel ready for a new challenge and the club had a great season last year, so I want to help build on that and show what I can do,\u201d McAtee said after being unveiled.<\/p>\n

McAtee was unveiled as a Forest player after joining from Manchester City for \u00a322m. Photograph: x<\/p>\n

Forest are on a recruitment drive after their head coach, Nuno Esp\u00edrito Santo, suggested he was short of options before hosting Brentford on Sunday. They are closing on a deal for the Rennes striker Arnaud Kalimuendo and are interested in the former Aston Villa midfielder Douglas Luiz, who is keen on a return to the Premier League from Juventus.<\/p>\n

McAtee, who has signed a five-year contract, followed fellow England Under-21 midfielder Omari Hutchinson in joining Forest<\/a> this week, after the 21-year-old winger switched from Ipswich in a \u00a337m deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rico Lewis has said he has no intention of leaving Manchester City this summer and believes missing out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-351642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115044188471124221","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351642","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=351642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}