Manchester Metropolis need to hand a Saudi Professional League star his method again into Europe, as Pep Guardiola grows ever-desperate to cease his facet’s dire run of kind.
With defeat at Anfield yesterday, the champions have now did not win of their final seven in all competitions. That is the longest winless run in Guardiola’s profession throughout Barcelona, Bayern Munich and now Manchester Metropolis, because the Catalan feels the warmth.
With a number of of Metropolis’s ageing squad trying drained, huge adjustments are anticipated on the Etihad Stadium within the subsequent couple of switch home windows – with a shock probably arriving from Saudi Arabia.
Manchester Metropolis are out there for an additional midfield schemer
Ranked no.1 in FourFourTwo’s record of the perfect gamers on the planet proper now, Rodri’s absence by harm has been enormous – with the midfielder himself completely telling FourFourTwo about how the staff can really feel uncovered with out the correct of safety in entrance of the defence.
However even forward of the Spaniard, Metropolis have main points. Bernardo Silva is off form, Ilkay Gundogan is trying a shadow of the participant he was in his first spell with the membership and Kevin De Bruyne has been used sparingly of late: all three are over 30 years outdated, too.
To fight this, Spanish outlet Estadio Deportivo reviews that Guardiola’s facet need to save homesick Gabri Veiga from the Saudi Professional League and supply him a lifeline again to Europe.
Veiga was linked with Metropolis again in the summertime of 2023 whereas nonetheless a Celta Vigo participant, however opted to affix the many abroad gamers who moved to the Center East that summer time, to signal for Al Hilal as a substitute.
Veiga’s switch turned heads, nonetheless, as not like many Europeans fleeing the continent, he was simply 21 years outdated on the time. Toni Kroos infamously blasted the choice as “embarrassing”.
Metropolis couldn’t solely supply a aggressive wage for the Spaniard, they might assist to rehabilitate his profession and see him again in worldwide reckoning. Veiga would have a degree to show again in European soccer and could also be hungry for the prospect to show some fallacious about him.
FourFourTwo understands that Veiga can be extra of a Bernardo Silva alternative than an possibility in Rodri’s place. In our opinion, the Spaniard’s future is one to look at – however Veiga might not be on the transfer till the summer time, resulting from Saudi tax legal guidelines.
As Jordan Henderson discovered when he left Al-Ettifaq, Saudi Arabia have a flat revenue tax price of 20 per cent until gamers keep within the Gulf State for 2 years. Veiga moved to the Saudi Professional League in August 2023.
The Galician midfielder is price €25 million, as per Transfermarkt. Metropolis tackle Nottingham Forest this Wednesday when Premier League motion returns.
