{"id":621352,"date":"2023-01-22T13:54:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T18:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=621352"},"modified":"2023-01-22T13:54:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T18:54:42","slug":"manchester-city-set-to-confirm-signing-of-argentine-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/01\/22\/manchester-city-set-to-confirm-signing-of-argentine-talent\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Here We Go&#8217; &#8211; Manchester City Set to Confirm Signing of &#8216;Next Frenkie de Jong&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City are set to announce the transfer of Maximo Perrone, according to a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1616868732873371648\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a>. The 2003-born midfielder is considered a huge talent that T<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/sport\/football\/transfer-news\/manutd-transfers-city-dejong-perrone-28995209\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he Mirror<\/a> once dubbed the &#8220;Next Frenkie de Jong&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h2>Manchester City Complete the Transfer of Maximo Perrone<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Manchester City have completed the signing of Argentinian talent M\u00e1ximo Perrone \u2014 documents are signed on clubs\/player side, here we go confirmed \ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udd35\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf7 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MCFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#MCFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perrone joins Man City until June 2028 from V\u00e9lez \u2014 done deal as revealed in December, now completed &amp; official soon. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P2BGCDSX3I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/P2BGCDSX3I<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1616868732873371648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>In Demand<\/h3>\n<p>Newcastle were\u00a0making &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/4016491\/2022\/12\/26\/newcastle-january-transfers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">extensive checks<\/a>&#8221; on Perrone, but the Citizens appear to have pipped them to the deal. They are activating his release clause, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1609196775570833411?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">previously reported<\/a> to be worth around \u00a36.5 million, in his contract with Velez Sarsfield. Perrone has reportedly signed a contract until June 2028, and Romano reports that all documents have been signed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/12\/22\/worst-goalkeeping-mistakes-in-premier-league-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">The 10 Worst Goalkeeping Mistakes In Premier League History\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The player will meet his new teammates after the Sudamericano Sub20, where he&#8217;s currently part of Argentina&#8217;s U20 team, coached by Javier Mascherano. This would be City&#8217;s first piece of business in the January window, which has been a surprisingly quiet month.<\/p>\n<h3>Who is Maximo Perrone?<\/h3>\n<p><a id=\"k5pDoslBTTl-trVxUIp29A\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1458487426\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'k5pDoslBTTl-trVxUIp29A',sig:'aF9zPLS_i85uS8eYTyWRijMhlCYzFwNKUJWjHv7MUdM=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1458487426',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The midfielder has been at Buenos Aires club Velez Sarsfield for his entire career and has made 33 appearances for the club. In that time, he&#8217;s supplied three goals and two assists, impressing scouts all over the world in the process.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/12\/22\/best-premier-league-players-who-never-played-for-the-big-six\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">10 Best Premier League Players Who Never Played For The Big Six<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perrone is a left-footed midfielder with great attacking vision and passing skills. Impressively, he has already captained Velez as a 19-year-old, despite having played less than 50 top-flight games. He models his game on Sergio Busquets, but has also been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transfermarkt.co.uk\/who-is-maximo-perrone-man-city-secure-next-redondo-from-velez-sarsfield\/view\/news\/416757\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">compared to<\/a> former Milan and Real Madrid star Fernando Redondo. In joining City, the teenager follows the footsteps of Julian Alvarez, who <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/01\/25\/julian-alvarez-joins-manchester-city\/\" target=\"_self\">left River Plate<\/a> last summer in a deal worth over \u00a316 million.<\/p>\n<p>The youngster is unlikely to make an instant impression on the first team, but for such a low reported fee he is worth the risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City are set to announce the transfer of Maximo Perrone, according to a report from Fabrizio Romano. The 2003-born midfielder is considered a huge talent that The Mirror once dubbed the &#8220;Next Frenkie de Jong&#8221;. Manchester City Complete the Transfer of Maximo Perrone Manchester City have completed the signing of Argentinian talent M\u00e1ximo Perrone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4397,"featured_media":621373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7188,17,3],"tags":[6610,8573],"class_list":["post-621352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rumours","category-manchester-city","category-premier-league","tag-manchester-city-transfers","tag-primeira-division"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4397"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}