Man City transfer latest

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Our reporter Michael Plant gives an update on Manchester City's transfer news with three departures now confirmed.

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00:00So there's been a little bit of news on Manchester City transfers in the last couple of days

00:04after what has been a pretty quiet start to the window for the Premier League champions.

00:08No news of any players coming in at the moment, which of course fans do want to hear, but

00:12actually a couple of outgoings which could potentially have a bit of a knock on effect

00:15in that regard. So we've had confirmation now that Taylor

00:17Harwood-Bellis is officially a Southampton player. That was a transfer we knew was going

00:21to go through that was reported in about kind of May time when Southampton did gain promotion

00:26back to the Premier League. Harwood-Bellis spent last season on loan at

00:29Southampton and we knew that once they had gained promotion that Southampton were obliged

00:33to make that loan move permanent for a figure of £20 million, so quite a significant fee

00:38I think for a player who realistically is nowhere near the first team, only played I

00:42think it was eight senior games for Manchester City and have now earned £20 million on them

00:46which they can potentially put back into transfers to try and bring players back in.

00:50We've also had confirmation that Luis Fioroni has left the club permanently, a player who

00:54never played a senior match for the club, but they've earned up to £1 million for him.

01:00He's joined Stockport County, a good move for him, he's had a difficult couple of years

01:03with injuries, was a very highly regarded youngster but he's just had a couple of difficult

01:08years, plenty of injuries during time on loan at Blackpool and Charlton last season, so

01:14I think from his perspective I just hope he gets a little regular run of games at Stockport.

01:19So that's two of the three players we know for certain have left City this summer.

01:23Also Tommy Doyle who departed and joined Wolves, that was confirmed I think it was

01:26about March-April time.

01:29Like Harwood Bellis, he spent the season on loan at Molyneux and they opted to make that

01:35transfer permanent as well.

01:36So that's three players that City have let go in this window but they've also had a significant

01:42transfer in terms of Douglas Luiz at Aston Villa because City sold Luiz to Villa in 2019

01:48and they included a 20% sell-on fee in that transfer.

01:51Douglas Luiz of course has moved to Juventus now for a fee of around £42m, so 20% of

01:57that is City's, that's a figure of roughly £8.5m that's gone into City's back pocket.

02:01So again, pretty good in terms of them and their transfer strategy that they have managed

02:05to bolster their potential funds to try and bring players in, that's very good news from

02:10them in that regard.

02:13And for now, it's all pretty quiet in terms of City trying to bring players in, they're

02:17definitely still interested in Bruno Gimaraes but I don't think we're going to see any movement

02:20in that.

02:21Bruno Gimaraes' release clause has now expired, that £100m fee, but City didn't really want

02:26to pay that figure anyway.

02:28Plenty of reports of potentially players leaving, we've had talk that, well Kevin De Bruyne

02:32has pretty much confirmed that he's going to be staying this season which is pretty

02:35significant for City as well but lots of talks about players potentially going, the likes

02:38of Ederson, Bernardo Silva, Mateus Nunes, all going quiet and Julian Alvarez which I

02:42think is interesting, a player I never really thought that there was any chance of him actually

02:46moving on this summer but as always we'll be bringing you the latest on Manchester World

02:51when there is some transfer news to report on City.

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