Tijjani Reijnders – Where will he fit in at Manchester City?

Manchester Metropolis have totally agreed a deal to signal AC Milan midfielder Tijjani Reijnders for an preliminary charge of roughly £46 million.

Reijnders, 26, was named as Serie A’s greatest midfielder final season after ten targets and 5 assists in 37 league appearances.

The Dutch worldwide is about to endure his medical on Sunday, with the expectation being that he’ll be a part of Metropolis in time to compete on the FIFA Membership World Cup, with the short-term switch window closing on June tenth.

However the place does he match into Metropolis’s plans?

Reijnders is paying homage to membership legend Ilkay Gundogan. Each are technical field crashing central midfielders, who principally thrive as eights however can play in deep mendacity and attacking midfield.

The German is predicted to remain at Metropolis for another season, however with much less recreation time than he received since rejoining, paving the best way for Reijnders to tackle a few of his minutes.

Mateo Kovacic and Bernardo Silva don’t appear to be going anyplace both, which means a transfer for Nottingham Forest’s Morgan Gibbs-White appears to be, for now at the very least, off the playing cards.

The deal for Lyon attacking midfielder Rayan Cherki is much less superior however nonetheless extensively anticipated to occur. He’s not as established as his predecessor, Kevin de Bruyne, so for his first season at the very least we might see Reijnders used extra usually as a quantity ten while Cherki settles.

Though, if the 21-year-old performs as he did in France’s 5-4 defeat to Spain, the place he scored a wonderful purpose and arrange Randall Kolo Muani with a stupendous cross, he’ll be very laborious to dislodge from the beginning XI and we are able to anticipate Reijnders to function deeper.

Though competitors for locations in that space is troublesome. Rodri needs to be match and able to begin by the start of subsequent season, which leaves Reijnders, Gundogan, Bernardo Silva, Nico Gonzalez and Mateo Kovacic competing for locations in midfield if we assume Cherki indicators and performs repeatedly because the ten.

While it’s not preferrred that Metropolis could have so many wonderful gamers unable to make the beginning XI, it signifies that Reijnders could have time to adapt with out taking over an excessive amount of accountability right away, realizing the workforce can cope with out him.

It would take him till his second season to correctly slot in as lots of Metropolis’s earlier signings have accomplished, however it could seem that Metropolis have gotten themselves one more steal; a primary workforce high quality participant that fixes loads of points for underneath £50 million in at this time’s market.

A hardworking, versatile, technical midfielder will all the time have a spot in a Pep Guardiola workforce, and Reijnders has all of these qualities in abundance.