"Moving parts over the summer": Elliot Anderson update | Enzo Maresca latest

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Alex James 0:00
Is target number one for City. There's a possibility they bring in more than one midfielder. There's a lot of moving parts at City this summer, more so than perhaps any in recent memory. There's there's a clutch of players, particularly in midfield, where you um you wouldn't hang your hat on. All of them being there, that is not easy to replace. Elliot Anderson is not Bernardo Silver, he won't be Bernardo Silver, he's a different kind of player, different profile of player, but He is a very, very, very good player, and the city would like would love it for him to be in the the starting 11th of the Premier League season. NordVPN, cybersecurity built for every day. And just before we get started, a word from our sponsors, NordVPN.
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Jack Flintham 1:09
Hello and welcome to the Talking City podcast. I'm Jack Flintum and I'm joined today by Alex James. Alex, how are we?
Alex James 1:16
I'm very well, thank you, Jack. It's uh different to be on the other side of the hosting duties and not do that intro. It's weird to hear someone else do it.

How are the Elliot Anderson transfer talks shaping up for Manchester City?

Jack Flintham 1:24
Yeah, it's it's I think the last time it was me and you, it was the day after the Carabao Cup final. I think that's the last time we we were on a broadcast together and God has has things changed since then.
Alex James 1:39
Very much so, yeah. I very m I'll take your word for that. Your memory's better than mine, but Oh, probably that was probably me saying, Right, that's it. City have won the League Cup, they're gonna win the uh Premier League now as well and the FA Cup and uh obviously didn't quite pan out like that, but Here we are. We're uh Missing Sai, who's in Greece. And it's not really not the musical, the place. Um So he's uh He's Sam's podcast for uh for a week or two, so in on we go.
Jack Flintham 2:10
Yes, definitely. I'm sure he'll be listening in from his sun lounger.
Alex James 2:13
Um but I don't doubt it.
Jack Flintham 2:16
Yes. Um but anyway, to start things we'll uh we'll we'll start with the main news and that's around Elliot Anderson. Um what's the sort of latest on on that one, Alex?

What is the latest on Enzo Maresca’s appointment as City’s new manager?

Alex James 2:28
Yeah, uh feel feels like this is gonna be um uh I was gonna say a saga. I'm not sure it'll become a saga, but it definitely feels like it's gonna rumble on for a bit in the summer. Um Essentially it's it's sort of out there that the city have had uh an offer of a hundred and twenty million rejected by Forest for Anderson. Um that's a hundred and six million up front with the rest in add ons. Um For us to turn that down, they want Somewhere in the region of a hundred and twenty million up front, which feels ambitious. Um And City have now gotta establish their next move, obviously. complicated by the fact that Elliot Anderson is at the World Cup with England and England's first game I think is Wednesday. Um So
Alex James 3:21
you would imagine that if a deal can't be sort of struck and completed in the next seventy two hours or so, it's gonna be difficult or certainly more difficult. To get that. over the line. Um in the tournament and the games are coming every three or four days and England might have six, seven, eight games to play in a World Cup as well. So, um, that's why I get the feeling it could run on a little bit. I think the players' preferences to come The city. Um But Forest have got a chairman in Maranakis who uh is not afraid to stand his ground um and is proving uh difficult to deal with. Um you can see why Forest won That much money for a player who is starting for England or is going to start for England in a World Cup.
Alex James 4:15
He's got three years left on his contract, I think. He's twenty-three. He's shown how good a player he is, um, since he's moved to Forest. I wouldn't have thought there's been too many occasions where there's been a starting player for England at a World Cup. from a team that was seventeenth or wherever Forrest ended up finishing.

How will the World Cup affect City’s squad and summer transfer plans?

Alex James 4:35
Um so that kind of shows the level he's at and the fact that he's I think he's twenty three, the level

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