Newcastle’s Tino Livramento is part of four-man shortlist. There has been spurious talk of a move for Trent Alexander-Arnold.

Manchester City have identified Newcastle United’s Tino Livramento as one of four right-back transfer targets this summer.

The dethroned champions have without a natural right-back since sanctioning Kyle Walker’s loan exit to AC Milan during the January transfer window and Pep Guardiola made little secret of his recruitment priority. “We will need a new full-back in the summer,” the City boss huffed earlier this year. “Obviously.”

Matheus Nunes has awkwardly shoehorned into the right-back role for much of the second half of the season – thanks in part to Guardiola’s belief. That he is “not clever enough” to play in midfield. Rico Lewis and Manuel Akanji have also moonlighted in that position, but Livramento provides a natural, Premier League-proven option.

That the jet-heeled right-back is part of a “four-man shortlist” of potential defensive recruits.

City are said to be targeting a new โปรโมชั่นพิเศษจาก UFABET สมัครตอนนี้ รับโบนัสทันที arrival before this summer’s Club World Cup as Walker’s chances of permanently leaving the Sky Blues this summer are described as “100%”.

Romano doesn’t name the other members of the shortlist. Although Juventus are thought to possess at least two of them. Reports of an agreement between City and Juve’s young right-back Nicolo Savona have gathered steam in recent weeks. The 22-year-old earned his first senior Italy call-up in November after enjoying a run in Juve’s first team in positions all across the back four.