{"id":505664,"date":"2025-12-18T09:04:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T13:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=505664"},"modified":"2025-12-18T09:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T13:04:17","slug":"manchester-city-wants-to-buy-a-teenager-from-a-club-in-ligue-2","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/manchester-city-wants-to-buy-a-teenager-from-a-club-in-ligue-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City wants to buy a teenager from a club in Ligue 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pep Guardiola\u2019s side are very close to ink 18-year-old Troyes wonderkid, Mathys Detourbet, after showing serious interest and outbidding other competitors. Mathys impressed in the Ligue 2, and a few big clubs in Europe already tried to buy him, but failed.<\/p>\n<p>The Troyes young star has been identified as a \u201cshooting star\u201d of French football. The wonderkid already visited Man City\u2019s facilities, an indication that the Sky Blues would do everything possible to buy him.<\/p>\n<p>In the current campaign, Detourbet has played 14 matches for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> team, starting just 1 time, but even in limited time on the pitch, he has 1 goal and 2 assists to his name. Despite the raw numbers, scouts described him as one of the future stars in football.<\/p>\n<p>AS Roma already tried to ink him the past summer as the Wolves offered 10 million euros to the French team, but they rejected the offer.<\/p>\n<p>Troyes are part of the City Football Group network, and a transfer for the wonderkid to Etihad would be possible despite some regulations because of the multi-team model ownership that is in place.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">AS Monaco will have to compete with Man City for Troyes forward Mathys Detourbet! \ud83e\udd2f<\/p>\n<p>Troyes are part of the City Group, and City have reportedly joined the race for the 18-year-old. \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n<p>They have already sent a detailed career plan to the Frenchman, who visited the club. \ud83e\ude75 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RufqKJJHg5\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/RufqKJJHg5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SleeperFootballNews (@SleeperFootNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SleeperFootNews\/status\/2001607136300691826?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pep Guardiola\u2019s side are very close to ink 18-year-old Troyes wonderkid, Mathys Detourbet, after showing serious interest and outbidding other competitors. Mathys impressed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":505666,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17183,26994],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[18121,26995],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Sky Blues are interested in an 18-year-old Troyes wonderkid.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/505664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/505664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505667,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/505664\/revisions\/505667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505664"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=505664"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=505664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}