Pep Guardiola have decided not to rule out the possibility that Manchester City would break their transfer record and spend more than £100m on a single player, amid intense speculation over the future of the youngster Erling Haaland.
City are in the market looking for a striker after the announcement that Sergio Aguero will bring his decade-long stay at the Etihad to an end after his contract expires this summer.
Haaland, who faces City in the Champions League quarter-finals with Borussia Dortmund on Tuesday night, is among the topmost players to replace Aguero but Dortmund are likely to command a fee in the range of €150m (£127m).
City’s new signing Ruben Dias, who joined in a £62m deal from Benfica in September, though the Portuguese centre-half is one of 10 players who’ve joined City for fees greater than £50m since the summer of 2015.
Guardiola last week described the prospect of another record signing arriving this summer as “impossible”, though appeared to soften that stance on Monday by claiming that a £100m signing is a possibility further down the line.
So far the club has decided not to spend not close to £100m for a player, or more than £100m on a player,” he said. “Maybe in the future it is going to happen if they decide it is necessary to improve the team for the next five, ten years, for many reasons.
But so far the club, the organisation, the CEO, the sporting director decided not to do it and that’s why they didn’t do it. But maybe in the future – I don’t know.