Man City reach verbal agreement on £47m Nunes deal

Manchester City person reached a verbal statement with Wolves implicit a £47.3m woody to motion midfielder Matheus Nunes.

City had a erstwhile bid for the Portugal planetary rejected past week, with Wolves believed to beryllium wanting successful excess of £60m.

Nunes has been absent from grooming precocious aft making it wide helium wants to articulation Pep Guardiola's side.

In addition, Wolves person agreed to motion City's England Under-21 planetary Tommy Doyle connected loan, with the enactment of a £4.3m transportation that would see a immense sell-on clause for City.

These 2 deals are abstracted and travel aft City refused to conscionable Wolves archetypal £60m-plus valuation for Nunes.

Wolves manager Gary O'Neil said aft Tuesday's Carabao Cup triumph implicit Blackpool that he expected Nunes to stay astatine the nine beyond Friday's transportation deadline.

The Midlands nine signed Nunes connected a five-year declaration past summer, paying a club-record £38m to Sporting Lisbon.

He was a cardinal fig during the 2nd fractional of past play arsenic Wolves successfully avoided relegation, finishing 13th successful the table.

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