Manchester City completed a piece of transfer business on deadline day, signing Manuel Akanji from Borussia Dortmund – a player that could cost them £9.5m-a-year/£181k-per-week in wages to provide cover on the bench.
It’s not the first time this summer that City have committed a lot of money on a player that won’t hold down a regular starting place this season – see Kalvin Phillips – so how much have they spent in total?
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- Kalvin Phillips (£44.1m from Leeds United) is believed to be earning £150k-per-week in wages
- Stefan Ortega (free transfer from Arm Bielefeld) is believed to be earning £55k-per-week in wages
- Sergio Gomez (£11.7m from RSC Anderlecht) is believed to be earning more than £9k-per-week in wages
- Manuel Akanji (£15.75m from Borussia Dortmund) is believed to be earning £181k-per-week in wages
Phillips has a £7.8m-a-year contract until 2028, Ortega has a £2.8m-a-year contract until 2025, Gomez £0.5m-a-year+ contract until 2026 and Akanji has a £9.4m-a-year contract until 2027, so City will spend £20.6m-a-year in wages plus the £71.5m on transfers fees on four players who have only made two appearances between them this season.
Ortega is a backup goalkeeper who’s been on the bench, Akanji just arrived, Phillips has mostly been injured and Gomez has played twice in the league.
To challenge on all four fronts (Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup and EFL Cup), you do need to have a deep squad. Pep Guardiola has used 19 different players in the league so far – Ortega, Akanji and Aymeric Laporte have yet to feature – so he’s quite thin on numbers.
Nevertheless, it’s a lot of money on players that aren’t heavily contributing on the pitch just yet.
In other news, Frank McAvennie makes bold prediction after Erling Haaland’s recent form
You really are a sad, bitter little man, pathetic excuse for a “journalist”, even in this day and age of the profession. How about you show us on the doll where City hurt you!
Haha yes City are really badly run aren’t they? Got the best striker in the world for far less than United waste on donkeys,time and again, not to mention Chelsea now.. Shows a terrible lack of knowledge when he doesn’t even know that City haven’t had a full CL squad for years and do not have that many players. It is far from a deep squad.
But it wins