{"id":15598,"date":"2026-07-09T01:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T01:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=15598"},"modified":"2026-07-09T01:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T01:31:14","slug":"man-city-make-malo-gusto-transfer-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=15598","title":{"rendered":"Man City make Malo Gusto transfer decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/NewsArticle\">\n<!-- google_ad_section_start --><\/p>\n<h6>News<span> \u00bb <\/span>Premier League news<span> \u00bb <\/span>Manchester City news<\/h6>\n<p class=\"articletimestamp\">July 7, 2026 21:38 GMT (UK), by <!-- Author Start -->Sri Aswin<!-- Author End -->\n<\/p>\n<h6>View Man City summer 2026 transfer targets<\/h6>\n<div style=\"float:right\">\n<figure>\n<p class=\"article_image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyefootball.com\/imghold\/largestMalo_Gusto_2023.jpg\" title=\"Malo wants news\" alt=\"Malo wants news\" itemprop=\"image\"\/><\/p><figcaption><em itemprop=\"articleSection\">Man City won&#8217;t buy Gusto at current price<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><br \/>\n<!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-size:16px\">\n<strong>Manchester City are reluctant to meet Chelsea&#8217;s current valuation for right-back <span itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\"><span itemprop=\"name\">Malo want<\/span><\/span>according to football.london.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><!-- responsive_ad --><\/p>\n<p>The Frenchman has been linked with a move to the Cityzens this summer following the Blues&#8217; decision to land <span itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\"><span itemprop=\"name\">Marco Palestra<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Palestra has been signed to provide cover for James at right-back, which has spread speculation that Gusto could be shown the exit door.<\/p>\n<p>Man City have been credited with an interest due to manager <span itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\"><span itemprop=\"name\">Enzo Maresca<\/span><\/span>but the club are quite clear that they won&#8217;t pay over the odds.<\/p>\n<p>The Mancunian giants have been left baffled by the Blues&#8217;\u00a0\u00a375m price tag for the Frenchman and have no plans of meeting such a huge fee.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, they are prepared to negotiate a much lower sum. If there is no scope, the club are willing to look elsewhere for a new solution.<\/p>\n<p>Gusto has already opened the door for a new challenge elsewhere, knowing that he may struggle for regular first-team football at Chelsea.<br \/><!-- Article End --><\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end --><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!-- newadv --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\nvar js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)(0);\nif (d.getElementById(id)) return;\njs = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\njs.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\nfjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News \u00bb Premier League news \u00bb Manchester City news July 7, 2026 21:38 GMT (UK),&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}