Nicolas Otamendi is a Citizen

Manchester City confirmed their third purchase this Thursday of the club's summer in 2015. The Argentine center-back Nicolas Otamendi has been bought from Valencia. Otamendi is a name that have been seen and heard all summer during the silly-season soap opera. Now it turns out that Otamendi instead choose light blue before red and thus he becomes a Manchester City player.

During the last season Manuel Pellegrini and Manchester City had big problems at back. The fans shouted for reinforcements, preferably at fullback as Kolarov and Sagna aren't youngsters anymore.

The executives negotiated a good deal and the other clubs that were interested Otamendi were set aside. Otamendi choose Manchester City and the expected transfer feet is 28.5 million pounds.

Otamendi was named one of La liga`s best central defenders last season. Manuel Pellegrini says he was the number one defender in La Liga last year. Nicolas Otamendi, who was born February 12, 1988 in Buenos Aires has previously played for Porto, which may be considered to be the club where he blossomed into a world class player.

With the purchase of Otamendi the competition gets significantly tougher for Manchester City's defenders. The club is currently sitting on Kompany, Mangala, Demichelis, Otamendi, and Denayer. Rumors say that Denayer is set to be loaned out, or, as it has been speculated in the media today, that Demichelis would move back to Argentina.


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Alex Sandro City Bound?

There seem to be a little issue on the left fullback position at Manchester City, at least if various fans online are to believed. There could be something to it. With both Clichy and Kolarov are pushing 30 and they have different qualities and with Angelino deemed not ready yet to step up there must be a mid-way gap in between. It could be Alex Sandro.

Unless City have someone else lined up, he seems like he would be the best option for City's presumed Left Fullback problem. He has recently asked for a transfer and at the moment Juventus are in talks to sign him for around 20m Euros. City will most likely keep Clichy for his Homegrown status, but Alex Sandro is 24 years old and would seem like a great buy to replace Kolarov.