{"id":695062,"date":"2026-01-14T09:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/695062\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T09:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:15:11","slug":"manchester-city-group-agreement-in-principle-for-tottenham-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/695062\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City group agreement in principle for Tottenham player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City owners City Football Group [CFG] are keen on adding Tottenham Hotspur\u2019s Alejo V\u00e9liz to their stable.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to Argentine journalist C\u00e9sar Luis Merlo, who reports this in his column for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uol.com.br\/esporte\/colunas\/mercado-da-bola\/2026\/01\/13\/bahia-faz-oferta-milionaria-por-alejo-veliz-do-rosario-central.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UOL<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, <a href=\"https:\/\/sportwitness.co.uk\/flamengo-surprise-contact-about-signing-tottenham-youngster-complicated-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claims from Brazil reported<\/a> interest from Flamengo. Now it\u2019s Bahia, owned by CFG, which oversees the Manchester City stable, who want to sign the Tottenham player on a permanent transfer in the winter market.<\/p>\n<p>Spurs signed the Argentine from Rosario Central in August 2022. He struggled in his first few months at the north London club, who sent him on loan to Sevilla and Espanyol in the next 18 months.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old wasn\u2019t able to impress regularly in Spain and decided to return to Rosario Central in July. The striker has scored five goals and contributed one assist from 16 matches for the Argentine club this season.<\/p>\n<p>Merlo claims Bahia have made an offer to sign the Spurs owned player. That offer is \u2018quite high\u2019, without a figure being mentioned. There\u2019s an \u2018agreement in principle\u2019 with Thomas Frank\u2019s side.<\/p>\n<p>Tottenham will have to cut short V\u00e9liz\u2019s stay before sanctioning his move to Brazil. The journalist claims this should happen in the coming days. He hasn\u2019t specified whether the player is open to a move.<\/p>\n<p>Tottenham expected to agree transfer with Manchester City group<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tycsports.com\/liga-profesional-de-futbol\/liga-profesional-mercado-de-pases-rosario-central-alejo-veliz-posible-salida-city-group-id707782.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TyC Sports<\/a> relay UOL\u2019s claim and provide their take on the possibility of Rosario Central losing V\u00e9liz in January. The latest development has come as a \u2018complete surprise\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>According to them, Spurs have an option to recall him in this window and are likely to exercise it.<\/p>\n<p>V\u00e9liz trained with the rest of the squad on Tuesday. Rosario Central have a friendly against Almirante Brown today. Therefore, TyC Sports report \u2018Wednesday is key\u2019 to find out whether manager Jorge Almir\u00f3n will rest the attacker or include him in the squad.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s likely to be the former as there\u2019s belief V\u00e9liz will end up joining the CFG, and be part of the Manchester City group of clubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City owners City Football Group [CFG] are keen on adding Tottenham Hotspur\u2019s Alejo V\u00e9liz to their stable.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[85897,191389,748,393,4884,2465,201,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-695062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-alejo-veliz","9":"tag-bahia","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-manchester","14":"tag-tottenham-hotspur","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115892697459126230","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695062","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=695062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}