Manchester City are set to proceed their astonishing summer recruitment drive by winning the race to sign Arsenal goal Sverre Nypan.
The 18-year-old looked prone to move in January when he was courted by the Gunners, Aston Villa and Girona.
Nypan, ultimately, decided his development can be best served by remaining with Rosenborg until the top of the Norwegian season.
The gifted teenager is able to take the online step in his profession, nevertheless, and has been persuaded to affix City, in line with The Athletic.
Arsenal had felt they may be better off given the influence exerted by Norway’s national team captain Martin Odegaard, whom Nypan has been likened to, however the player is now sure for the Etihad Stadium.
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City are prone to loan out the creative midfielder ahead of next season where he’ll gain priceless first team experience.
Personal terms are yet to be agreed, but once a deal is struck the transfer is predicted to represent record fee for a player from the Norwegian league.
Earlier on Wednesday, City have accomplished the £46.3million signing of Netherlands midfielder Tijjani Reijnders from AC Milan.
The Premier League club have confirmed the 26-year-old has put pen to paper on a five-year contract on the Etihad Stadium.
His arrival makes it 4 signings in per week for City, who announced deals for £30.5m midfielder Rayan Cherki from Lyon and Chelsea’s third-choice goalkeeper Marcus Bettinelli on Tuesday, while left-back Rayan Ait-Nouri joined from Wolves in a £31.3m move on Monday.
Those transfers have been finalised in time for the players to be registered for the group stages of the Club World Cup this month.
Will Arsenal regret Sverre Nypan snub?
Having invested a good amount of effort and resource back in January of their try to woo Nypan, there shall be a good amount of frustration that the player is headed elsewhere.
That said, Arsenal are already well stocked for presented teenage midfield technicians given they boast the likes of Myles Lewis-Skelly, Ethan Nwaneri and the even younger Max Dowman.
Lewis-Skelly, already a full England international, made the left-back slot his own last season but Mikel Arteta is yet to seek out a chance to deploy him in his more natural central midfield role.
The identical, to an extent, is true of Nwaneri whose best performances last season got here when he was stationed out on the wing during Bukayo Saka’s injury-enforced layoff.
Dowman, meanwhile, is about to feature in pre-season and is prone to force his way into the primary team squad next term having already apparently outgrown Arsenal’s various youth teams.
Nypan is clearly an enormous talent, however the competition for places at Arsenal is already so intense that that is one prospect the Gunners can afford to miss out on.
Reijnders arrives at City after impressing in an otherwise disappointing season at Milan, who finished eighth in Serie A and missed out on qualification for Europe.
He scored 15 goals within the 2024-25 campaign and can bolster Pep Guardiola’s midfield options following this summer’s departure of Kevin De Bruyne.
The Dutchman said: ‘I’m ecstatic to be signing for Manchester City. City are one among the largest teams on the planet, with the very best coach, world-class players and outstanding facilities.
‘Under Pep Guardiola, City have won so many titles and I would like to assist keep that going with rather a lot more success in the approaching years. It’s also a dream come true to play within the Premier League.
‘This league has seen lots of the very best Dutch players perform through the years and it’s an inspiration to follow of their footsteps.
‘I’m really looking forward to getting going, meeting the opposite players and showing the Manchester City fans what I can do.’
City’s latest transfer activity continues an overhaul of the squad that began with the January signings of Omar Marmoush, Nico Gonzalez, Abdukodir Khusanov and Vitor Reis.
Further deals are also possible because the club reply to a disappointing season during which they did not mount a powerful Premier League title defence and exited the Champions League before the last 16.
Director of football Hugo Viana added: ‘We’re very completely satisfied that Tijjani has joined us and we’re excited for him to affix Pep’s squad.
‘Tijjani adds extra energy, composure and creativity to our midfield, and dealing with Pep and our coaches will only see him go from strength to strength.’
City will play their first match within the Club World Cup against Morocco’s Wydad Casablanca on June 18 and have further group games against Al Ain of Abu Dhabi and Juventus.
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