{"id":516491,"date":"2026-08-17T10:42:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T14:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=516491"},"modified":"2026-08-17T10:42:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T14:42:56","slug":"man-city-will-make-bid-for-bouaddi-and-still-wants-fernandez","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/man-city-will-make-bid-for-bouaddi-and-still-wants-fernandez\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City will make bid for Bouaddi and still wants Fernandez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The club from the Etihad are in advanced discussions with Lille over the transfer of Morocco midfielder Ayyoub Bouaddi.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester City want to buy him in the coming days after agreeing to sell Rodri to Barca. However, the French club wants over 85 million pounds for its 18-year-old star.<\/p>\n<p>The Sky Blues are also interested in buying Enzo Fernandes. If they bought them both this summer, it would mean that the club has completed a trio of costly midfield signings, as they already bought Elliot Anderson from Nottingham.<\/p>\n<p>Ayyoub shone this summer at the World Cup as he was a starter in 5 of his country\u2019s 6 games in the competition as Morocco reached the \u00bc finals. Bouaddi was a starter in Lille\u2019s 2024 ECL win against Real Madrid 2 years ago, his first moment on the big stage.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his young age, the Moroccan midfielder has already appeared in 88 games for his French club since his debut in October 2023, only 3 days after his 16<sup>th<\/sup> birthday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lille striker Olivier Giroud on Ayyoub Bouaddi: &quot;He&#39;s calm, confident, staying himself! I was talking with some friends and they sent some pictures: Patrick Vieira and Sergio Busquets. They said he&#39;s a mix of both!<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He&#39;s not yet as good as Sergio Busquets technically, but still\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dEMMZsElFb\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/dEMMZsElFb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; City Xtra (@City_Xtra) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/City_Xtra\/status\/2089319765512691966?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">August 17, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The club from the Etihad are in advanced discussions with Lille over the transfer of Morocco midfielder Ayyoub Bouaddi. Manchester City want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":516492,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[27156,17183],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[27157,18121],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Sky Blues are busy near the end of the transfer window.","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\/516491"}],"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=516491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/516491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516493,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/516491\/revisions\/516493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516491"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=516491"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=516491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}