{"id":638768,"date":"2024-04-18T09:22:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T13:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=638768"},"modified":"2024-04-18T09:22:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T13:22:24","slug":"manchester-city-rayan-ait-nouri-wolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/04\/18\/manchester-city-rayan-ait-nouri-wolves\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Wolves Won&#8217;t Make it Easy&#8217;: Manchester City Eyeing Summer Move for \u2018Phenomenal\u2019 Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City could make a summer move for Rayan Ait-Nouri following his incredible 2023-24 season at Wolves. The Citizens are expected to add a new full-back to their ranks this summer.<\/p>\n<h2>Manchester City to Make Transfer Decision on Ait-Nouri<\/h2>\n<h3>A Ball-Playing Left-Back<\/h3>\n<p>Ait-Nouri started his Premier League career after joining Wolves on a \u00a39.8 million move from Angers in 2021. Once one of the most promising youngsters in Ligue 1, he initially struggled to adapt to life in the English top flight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/04\/17\/man-city-walker-ake-fa-cup-chelsea\/\" target=\"_self\">FA Cup Semi-Finals: Man City Handed Double Injury Boost Ahead Of Chelsea Clash<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last season, Ait-Nouri\u2019s poor form convinced Julen Lopetegui to drop him from the Wolves squad for nine of their last ten games of the season. The Algeria international even emerged on the club\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/football\/2023\/06\/15\/wolves-manager-news-julen-lopetegui-stay-future\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sale list<\/a> last summer. However, he went on to find his best form under Gary O\u2019Neil and quickly reclaimed his starting spot at the start of the current season.<\/p>\n<p>The Wolves full-back\u2019s incredible <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/5195109\/2024\/01\/12\/rayan-ait-nouri-afcon-wolves-missed\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">versatility<\/a> and his ball-playing qualities have attracted interest from Manchester City ahead of the summer transfer window. However, it seems the Wanderers are not willing to give up on their \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thisisfutbol.com\/2020\/11\/blogs\/premier-league\/wolves\/wolverhampton-wanderers-tim-spiers-heaps-praise-on-rayan-ait-nouri\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">phenomenal<\/a>\u201d defender without a fight.<\/p>\n<h3>Not an Easy Transfer<\/h3>\n<p>Ait-Nouri has emerged as a potential target for Man City, with one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballtransfers.com\/en\/transfer-news\/uk-premier-league\/2024\/04\/man-city-transfer-news-rayan-ait-nouri-wolves-arsenal-liverpool-competition-steve-kay\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">source<\/a> even claiming the Citizens are considering involving Sergio Gomez in a player-plus-cash swap deal for him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/03\/22\/michael-owen-predicts-premier-league-winners\/\" target=\"_self\">\u2018Best Team in the World\u2019: Ex-Man Utd Player Backs Rivals to Win Premier League Title<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"https:\/\/caughtoffside.com\/2024\/04\/17\/ait-nouri-transfer-city-links-played-down\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a> believes Man City still haven\u2019t made a final decision on signing a new left-back. The renowned journalist doesn\u2019t expect Wolves to \u201cmake it easy\u201d for interested clubs to sign the 22-year-old this summer as they look to keep most of their important players ahead of the next season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch<\/strong>: Who Wins The Premier League?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"THREE WAY WAR - Who Wins The Premier League?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6XQStPx9Lw0?start=5&#038;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<h3>Top Man City Targets Ahead of Summer Transfer Window<\/h3>\n<p>In addition to Ait-Nouri, Man City are heavily linked with a summer move for West Ham\u2019s Lucas Paqueta. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/football\/2024\/02\/23\/manchester-city-transfer-west-ham-paqueta-bernardo-silva\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Telegraph<\/a>, the Citizens are eyeing the 26-year-old as a potential replacement for Bernardo Silva.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/04\/05\/manchester-city-liverpool-arsenal-chasing-history\/\" target=\"_self\">Citizens , Liverpool and Arsenal are Chasing the Premier League Title, as Well as History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another Wolves star Pedro Neto is also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/football\/2024\/03\/09\/liverpool-manchester-city-wolves-pedro-neto-transfer\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> to be on City\u2019s radar as well as Bayern Muinch\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-13040885\/Man-City-set-compete-Barcelona-Bayern-Munich-star-Joshua-Kimmich-summer.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joshua Kimmich<\/a>. Following their unsuccessful bid to sign Declan Rice last summer, the Citizens could return to the market for a new central midfielder this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City could make a summer move for Rayan Ait-Nouri following his incredible 2023-24 season at Wolves. The Citizens are expected to add a new full-back to their ranks this summer. Manchester City to Make Transfer Decision on Ait-Nouri A Ball-Playing Left-Back Ait-Nouri started his Premier League career after joining Wolves on a \u00a39.8 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5073,"featured_media":638778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[17,30,3,28,2510],"tags":[7483,6771],"class_list":["post-638768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-city","category-news","category-premier-league","category-transfers","category-wolves","tag-manchester-city-transfer-rumours","tag-rayan-ait-nouri"],"modified_by":"Declan Wiseman, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638768","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\/5073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}