Manchester City sign Tijjani Reijnders to take spending this week past £100m | Manchester City

Manchester Metropolis have taken their early summer time spending to greater than £100m after making Tijjani Reijnders their fourth signing in three days. The Netherlands midfielder has arrived from Milan for €55m (£46.6m) and joins Rayan Aït-Nouri, Marcus Bettinelli and Rayan Cherki on the membership.

All 4 will likely be accessible for the Membership World Cup, with Metropolis’s first match in opposition to Wydad AC going down subsequent Wednesday, after Reijnders signed earlier than Tuesday’s deadline.

Reijnders has a five-year deal as Pep Guardiola revitalises his squad after an underwhelming season by the membership’s requirements, ending a distant third within the Premier League and gathering no silverware up to now. Metropolis had been additionally energetic within the January window, spending greater than £180m on 4 gamers. Their outlay in 2025 stands at £288m.

Reijnders stated: “Metropolis are one of many greatest groups on the earth, with the most effective coach, world-class gamers and excellent services. Below Pep Guardiola, Metropolis have received so many titles and I need to assist preserve that going with much more success within the coming years.

“It’s also a dream come true to play within the Premier League. This league has seen most of the finest Dutch gamers carry out by way of the years and it’s an inspiration to observe of their footsteps.”

Whereas the brand new signings are going to the Membership World Cup, Jack Grealish was omitted of Metropolis’s 27-man squad for the match on Wednesday. The 29-year-old’s omission had been extensively anticipated and can elevate additional doubts over his future on the membership, with an exit this summer time doubtless.

There has additionally been a reshuffle off the pitch with Metropolis appointing the ­former Liverpool assistant head coach Pepijn Lijnders to Guardiola’s employees and taking James French, an analyst at Anfield for greater than a decade, as a set-piece coach.

Metropolis’s director of soccer, Hugo Viana, stated of Reijnders: “He arrives right here with intensive top-level expertise in Europe, each at membership stage in addition to on the worldwide stage with the Netherlands. Tijjani provides further power, composure and creativity to our midfield.”