{"id":626973,"date":"2023-08-24T02:53:32","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T06:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=626973"},"modified":"2023-08-24T02:53:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T06:53:32","slug":"manchester-city-eze-crystal-palace-paqueta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/08\/24\/manchester-city-eze-crystal-palace-paqueta\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City Eyeing \u2018Explosive\u2019 Premier League Star After Missing Out on Paqueta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Daily Mail reporter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jack_Gaughan\/status\/1694318960689205332?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jack Gaughan<\/a>, Manchester City are weighing up a move for Crystal Palace star, Eberechi Eze. The attacking midfielder has been on City&#8217;s radar for a few months now, and after missing out on Lucas Paqueta, they could potentially formalise their interest.<\/p>\n<p>[metabet_core_polling_tile query=&#8221;soe\/manchester_city&#8221; size=&#8221;350&#215;300&#8243; site_id=&#8221;metabet-website&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2>Manchester City Interested in Palace Star<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Man City weighing up move for Eberechi Eze (but they&#39;re yet to formalise interest) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pbPdomdiXQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/pbPdomdiXQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jack Gaughan (@Jack_Gaughan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jack_Gaughan\/status\/1694318960689205332?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Why Do City Need Eze?<\/h3>\n<p>Although The Citizens are yet to formalise their interest, recent developments suggest it could be a realistic possibility. They were very close to signing West Ham United&#8217;s attacking midfielder, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1693990398329536544?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lucas Paqueta<\/a>, but the deal fell through at the last moment due to some off-the-pitch issues. The need for an attacking midfielder was raised when their talisman, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1691454767434973184?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kevin de Bruyne,<\/a> suffered a serious injury during the club&#8217;s Premier League opener against Burnley. The Belgian is expected to be out for a considerable amount of time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/08\/22\/manchester-city-agree-jeremy-doku-signing\/\" target=\"_self\">&#8216;<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/08\/22\/manchester-city-agree-jeremy-doku-signing\/\" target=\"_self\">Agreement in Place\u2019: Manchester City Secure \u00a355 Million Move for \u2018Exceptional\u2019 Mahrez Replacement with \u2018Almost Limitless Potential\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The England international can turn out to be an able deputy in the attacking midfield position for the Premier League champions in the absence of their star man. Similar to the Belgian, he is capable of producing match-winning moments out of thin air, as he has displayed in recent seasons with the Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>The former QPR man&#8217;s versatility is another big asset, he can even play as a winger if needed. This trait will help him get minutes even when De Bruyne returns from injury.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch<\/strong>: Pep Guardiola Will DEFEND Manchester City&#8217;s Treble &#8211; Here&#8217;s How<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pep Guardiola Will DEFEND Manchester City&#039;s Treble - Here&#039;s How\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I5NzGnlmCng?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Crystal Palace\u2019s Demands and City Scout\u2019s Review of Eze<\/h3>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12436825\/Manchester-City-consider-Eberechi-Eze-deal-sign-Lucas-Paqueta-collapsed-Crystal-Palace-expected-demand-70m-England-international.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reports<\/a>, City&#8217;s senior scouts are heavily impressed by the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hitc.com\/en-gb\/2023\/08\/17\/what-a-player-sky-pundit-lauds-explosive-englishman-tottenham-could-bid-for\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">explosive<\/a>&#8221; midfielder after following him for six months at Palace. The trait that attracted the scouts the most was his ability to control the game for the Selhurst Park-based team. Although the player has only two years left on his contract, Palace are expected to demand a transfer fee in excess of \u00a370 million from any club that wishes to snatch away their prized asset.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester City are also looking at <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/08\/24\/matheus-nunes-manchester-city-wolverhampton-wanderers\/\" target=\"_self\">Matheus Nunes<\/a> from Wolverhampton Wanderers according to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/David_Ornstein\/status\/1694335057278718371?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Ornstein<\/a>. Nunes and Eze are among the small pool of midfielders the treble-winners are looking at to solidify their midfield.<\/p>\n<p>Featured image: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User:Ank_gsx\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ank Kumar<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Daily Mail reporter, Jack Gaughan, Manchester City are weighing up a move for Crystal Palace star, Eberechi Eze. The attacking midfielder has been on City&#8217;s radar for a few months now, and after missing out on Lucas Paqueta, they could potentially formalise their interest. [metabet_core_polling_tile query=&#8221;soe\/manchester_city&#8221; size=&#8221;350&#215;300&#8243; site_id=&#8221;metabet-website&#8221;] Manchester City Interested in Palace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4733,"featured_media":627003,"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":[17,12,3,7188],"tags":[9328,5037,7483],"class_list":["post-626973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-city","category-crystal-palace","category-premier-league","category-rumours","tag-crystal-palace-transfer-rumours","tag-eberechi-eze","tag-manchester-city-transfer-rumours"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626973","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\/4733"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}