Will Neymar leave for Manchester City .. Guardiola reveals shocking information

Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola, the English champion, denied on Wednesday press reports that the French club Paris Saint-Germain had offered Brazilian star Neymar to "Citizens" as part of a player exchange deal.

"This is not true. I am sorry for them, but their information was wrong," the Catalan coach said in a press conference held in conjunction with his team's pre-season tour in the United States.

Guardiola referred to an article in the newspaper "Le Parisien" claiming that Neymar, who moved to the Parisian capital with a record deal (222 million euros), which is no longer desirable, could have been used as a bargaining chip in exchange for the transfer of a player from City.

The article specified that "the club coached by Pep Guardiola quickly rejected this possibility. The Spaniard does not want to disrupt the building of his group in conjunction with the arrival of a star of this caliber."

Within the same race, Guardiola added, "Neymar is a great player and according to the information I have, he is a very nice person. So leave him alone, and let him express his wonderful talent in Paris," complaining that "every summer (they write that) Manchester City will sign 150 players. ".

And City became active even before the opening of the winter transfer market by signing the Norwegian international striker Erling Halland from Borussia Dortmund.

German goalkeeper Stefan Ortega Moreno from Armenia Bielefeld, English international midfielder Calvin Phillips from Leeds United and 22-year-old Argentine striker Julian Alvares, who bought him last season but stayed with his former Argentine team River Plate on loan, before joining To City this summer.

On the other hand, the English champions gave up Brazilian striker Gabriel Jesus to Arsenal and Raheem Sterling to Chelsea.

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