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Ilkay Gündogan y Xavi Hernández en un entrenamiento del Barça

GUARDIOLA DID A LAST ATTEMPT

Gündogan rejected a desperate offer from City over his commitment to Barca

Published:19/10/2023 - 22:12h

Updated:19/10/2023 - 22:12h

Ilkay Gündogan Turned into a very important footballer for the Barça in very few parties, but this situation arrived to a large extent graces that the culés knew to take advantage of the doubts of the City

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Pep Guardiola and the Manchester City have surpassed already a polish of work, achieving besides in this 2023 the big mission that had both when they decided to join his ways: win a Champions League. In this time a philosophy that the entity has adopted of clear form is not preventing that the footballers that want to leave can do it, as long as ingresen the quantities that consider just.

Besides, the Catalan technician has allowed that the club work also with signings of young footballers and with projection, doing that the more veterans of the entity went going out little by little, although this past summer this last posture went out them something expensive. The City insisted with his offer of renewal for Ilkay Gündogan with the idea that only it could be year to year, a situation that to the German did not like him too much and was lengthening the conversations between both.

The City took too much in reacting

Under this stage appeared and took advantage of the FC Barcelona. The ex captain of the English did not feel a true interest of the club to the hour to renew him and finish giving the 'himself' to a Barça that benefited of the doubts of the British group. Like this it has explained it this Thursday 'Sport', aiming that Gündogan at all times left clear that wanted a renewal of as minimum two seasons, something that even before the World-wide of Qatar moved to the English directive.

In that moment what more wanted the German was to follow playing in the Etihad, as it aims the information, but the vision of the leaders 'skyblue' considered that the most optimum was to go of year in year. This disagreement lasted several months and took advantage of it the Barça to do of his interest something much more concrete. From the past month of January the situation did not vary too much and although Gündogan himself received finally an offer of two years by part of the City, already was too late.

Gündogan Already had seen like player of the Barça

Although that new proposal of the club mancuniano forced to the Barça to improve his offer, so much economically as in length, the culés benefited that the player already had the mind in the City Condal, where finished signing by two years and a third that will be conditioned to some minima of participation, similar to the current agreement of Robert Lewandowski.