{"id":17986,"date":"2026-07-16T16:18:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=17986"},"modified":"2026-07-16T16:18:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:18:36","slug":"man-city-are-ready-to-submit-an-official-bid-for-breakout-world-cup-star-as-try-to-head-off-pl-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=17986","title":{"rendered":"Man City Are &#8220;Ready To Submit An Official Bid&#8221; For Breakout World Cup Star As Try To Head Off PL Rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<article>\n<p><strong>Man City are expected to step up their pursuit of Lille midfielder Ayyoub Bouaddi over the coming days, according to journalist Nicolo Schira.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Posting on his X account, the <em>Gazzetta dello Sport<\/em> reporter said that the Moroccan international has signalled his interest in joining Enzo Maresca\u2019s side, with an \u201cofficial bid\u201d set to be submitted imminently:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Talks in progress for Ayyoub #Bouaddi to #ManchesterCity from #Lille. The morrocan midfielder has already given his availability to join #MCFC, which are ready to submit an official bid to #LOSC in the next days. #transfers https:\/\/t.co\/HJ8MdIR9lW<\/p>\n<div class=\"sra_unit\"><link rel=\"stylesheet\" id=\"block-sra\" href=\"https:\/\/mancitynews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/snack-related-articles\/dist\/css\/snack-related.min.css?240402-33626\" type=\"text\/css\" media=\"all\"\/>\n<aside class=\"sra-group sra-related-list\">\n<h2 class=\"sra-group-head\">Most Read on Man City News<\/h2>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Nicol\u00f2 Schira (@NicoSchira) July 15, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Bouaddi is likely to <strong>cost around \u20ac100m (\u00a385m)<\/strong> if City want to bring him to the Etihad Stadium this summer. Lille are said to be willing to let him leave for less than that if a team agrees to loan him back to the Ligue One side for another year.<\/p>\n<h2>Man City want to beat the competition<\/h2>\n<p>Bouaddi has bolstered his reputation with his performances for Morocco at the World Cup, and he is certainly not short of suitors.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea, Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain are just some of the clubs who are interested in the player.<\/p>\n<p>For that reason, City are keen to get this deal over the line as soon as possible to prevent a potential hijacking.<\/p>\n<h2>Why do Man City want to sign Bouaddi now?<\/h2>\n<p><smartframe-embed theme=\"sp-theme\" customer-id=\"0b629b85ba2abe5ff39df9829ee5fb57\" image-id=\"mcfc2LbSt9JU\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; aspect-ratio: 6468\/4122; max-width: 6468px;\"\/><!-- https:\/\/smartframe.io\/embedding-support --><br \/>New head coach Enzo Maresca is not exactly short of numbers in the middle of the park, especially after the club record addition of Elliot Anderson.<\/p>\n<p>However, Director of Football Hugo Viana is having to anticipate potential departures. Rodri has less than a year left on his contract, and there is no sign that an extension is close to being signed.<\/p>\n<p>Nico Gonzalez and Mateo Kovacic are also expected to be sold before the transfer window closes, while there are doubts over the future of Tijjani Reijnders as well.<\/p>\n<\/article><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man City are expected to step up their pursuit of Lille midfielder Ayyoub Bouaddi over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17986","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\/17986","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=17986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}