{"id":1180042,"date":"2022-08-16T14:44:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T14:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/16\/done-deal-manchester-city-confirms-their-5th-summer-signing-of-former-barcelona-player\/"},"modified":"2022-08-16T14:44:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T14:44:40","slug":"done-deal-manchester-city-confirms-their-5th-summer-signing-of-former-barcelona-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/16\/done-deal-manchester-city-confirms-their-5th-summer-signing-of-former-barcelona-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Done-Deal: Manchester City Confirms Their 5th Summer Signing of Former Barcelona Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>In the transfer market for attacking full-backs following Oleksandr Zinchenko&#8217;s \u20ac35m transfer to league rivals Arsenal last month, Manchester City on this day have delightfully announced the Ukrainian replacement for \u20ac11m, keeping \u20ac24m in the bank.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/cb7a6e26ec144509add61a792072bf0d\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sergio Gomez is the latest arrival at Etihad and their 5th signing of the summer- joins from RSC Anderlecht on a four-year contract following a fine campaign he had in his first season in the Belgium top-flight division &#8211; where he was voted as &#8220;Belgian Club&#8217;s Player of the Year&#8221; last season under the guidance of former star Vincent Kompany.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/6208206d42ef4f30ac33d47cbe4d8a3f\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old highly rated Spanish left-back who is also comfortable playing in the right-wing understood began his career in Barcelona&#8217;s youth set-up before leaving the Catalan club to join Bundesliga outfit Borussia Dortmund for \u20ac3m at the start of 2018.<\/p>\n<p>He was then loaned back to Spain with Huesca for two seasons helping them regain La La Promotion at the end of the 2019\/20 campaign before joining Anderlecht in 2021 for an undisclosed fee.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/93398374fe8a46bab683af5379f7a399\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/27600d415ab047aba4add4471b6b0e7e\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Joins the reigning champions of the Premier League, he is considered as one of the promising young attacking full-backs who can provide competition to Portuguese star Joao Cancelo and developed under former manager Pep Guardiola during his days at Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: BerBea-nt (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       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