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Manchester City set to sign Alvaro Negredo from Sevilla

By on July 17, 2013

Manchester City are set to sign Alvaro Negredo from Sevilla for around £20 million, with the former Real Madrid forward reportedly signing a four-year £75,000-a-week contract at the Etihad. Although Negredo will still have to pass a medical at the English club, City have all but completed their third singing of a rather busy summer transfer window.

The 27-year-old has been a long-term target of City’s new manager Manuel Pellegrini, who attempted to purchase Negredo while at Malaga, and the Chilean has now made his new signing the replacement for Carlos Tevez. Negredo will have big shoes to fill, but he proved he could score goals while at Sevilla, netting 25 goals in La Liga last season alone on a relatively modest £1.7m a-year contract. Now though the Spaniard will be served with £3.9m a year, signing what Sevilla’s president Jose Maria Del Nido said was “the contract of his life” at City.

Negredo is set to join City for pre-season training on Thursday, having to suffer through three hard training sessions every day before the Sky Blues depart to Hong-Kong for friendlies and more training. Even Jack Rodwell, who trained under Manchester United’s strict manager David Moyes before moving to City said: “My honeymoon is three training sessions a day in South Africa. Three sessions a day is a little bit brutal. It’s tiring but that’s what you expect in pre-season.

“I can only judge from what I’ve seen so far and he’s stern and he makes us work hard, which is probably what we need. He likes us to press high up and press in numbers , really get the ball back as soon as possible and then play simple football, keep the ball until we’re in the final third and then see.

“I think that’s the way to play at the moment. You look at Barcelona and what they do and it works for them so hopefully we’ll adapt.

“David Moyes works you really hard and he’s also a hard but fair manager as well. There are certain similarities [with Pellegrini].”

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