Lionel Messi, Jack Grealish and the players Man City are ‘tipped to sign’ in January

Manchester Metropolis’s 2020 hasn’t fairly gone to plan after they conceded the Premier League title to Liverpool and didn’t enterprise as far within the Champions League as they might have preferred.

Whereas this time period has begun with City navigating their approach by means of the group levels as soon as once more, Pep Guardiola’s aspect are already adrift of Liverpool within the hunt for the title.

A serious transfer in the summertime to the long run noticed Guardiola put pen to a brand new deal on the Etihad Stadium and vital signings might be made in 2021.

The newest odds from SkyBet counsel precisely that, as there are three gamers particularly who’ve been tipped to make the transfer to Manchester.

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Lionel Messi – 7/2

Lionel Messi is about to go away Barcelona in 2021, together with his contract because of expire on the finish of the season and Manchester Metropolis have lengthy been touted because the favourites for his signature.

Messi is free to debate a pre-contractual settlement with a aspect exterior of Spain in January and, remarkably, Barcelona’s greatest-ever participant may go away totally free.

If Barcelona need to keep away from that, they must settle for a sale in January and, in the event that they accomplish that, Metropolis are in prime place to signal one among soccer’s biggest ever gamers.

Jack Grealish – 9/1

The Aston Villa captain has been closely linked with a transfer to Manchester in 2020, albeit to the opposite aspect of town with Manchester United eyeing his companies.

Whereas they continue to be the favourites to signal the midfielder, who has damaged into the England squad this 12 months, Metropolis are nonetheless thought-about to be within the working for his companies.

Nevertheless, Grealish is unlikely to go away his boyhood membership within the lurch halfway by means of the season and a departure from Villa Park could be probably to happen after subsequent summer time’s European Championships.

After Manchester Metropolis reached the Carabao Cup semi-finals as soon as once more in midweek, the main focus now turns again to the Premier League.

The Blues host Newcastle on Boxing Day night, earlier than a difficult journey up the M62 to play Everton on Monday December 28.

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Sergio Ramos – 11/1

The Actual Madrid icon is effectively into the twilight years of his profession and an exit from the Santiago Bernabeu continues to edge nearer.

Relatively surprisingly although, a transfer to Manchester Metropolis is touted as being in competition but it surely’s a switch that will surely be thought-about to be unlikely.

Metropolis signed Ruben Dias in the summertime, have Aymeric Laporte on their books and have additionally seen John Stones get pleasure from a revival, so it is not evident the place Ramos would slot into the image.