Abdukodir Khusanov: Manchester City agree £33.6m deal for Lens defender

Manchester Metropolis have agreed a 40m euros (£33.6m) take care of Lens for central defender Abdukodir Khusanov.

Sources with data of the deal say there are further bonus funds connected to the sale, with the participant as a result of endure a medical earlier than the switch is formally confirmed.

Metropolis supervisor Pep Guardiola has been decided to strengthen his squad after a troublesome couple of months which has seen the defending Premier League champions slip to sixth within the desk – and 12 factors behind leaders Liverpool.

The membership are additionally in negotiations with Brazilian aspect Palmeiras for teenage defender Vitor Reis, though the membership’s president has been quoted as saying studies they’re eager to money in on the 18-year-old are “not right”.

As well as, Metropolis are eager on Egypt ahead Omar Marmoush following the 25-year-old’s spectacular shows for Eintracht Frankfurt this season.

Khusanov will grow to be the primary Uzbekistan participant to affix a Premier League membership as soon as his transfer is accomplished. He may even be Metropolis’s first vital January signing because the arrival of Aymeric Laporte in 2018.

It underlines Guardiola’s willpower to reverse Metropolis’s fortunes and deal with a persistent damage scenario that has left him with out a succession of defenders in the course of the first half of the marketing campaign.

Ruben Dias has not featured because the derby defeat by Manchester United on 15 December and has been dominated out of Saturday’s FA Cup third-round tie with League Two aspect Salford Metropolis.

England’s John Stones may even miss the sport, whereas Nathan Ake has twice been dominated out for prolonged intervals due to damage already this season.

Lens solely paid 100,000 euros (£84,000) for Khusanov from Belarusian membership Energetik-BGU 18 months in the past.

Nevertheless, he has developed quickly and made 13 appearances in Ligue 1 up to now this season and has 18 caps for Uzbekistan.

Khusanov scored his first purpose for the membership on his most up-to-date look, a French Cup tie with Paris St-Germain on 22 December.

Metropolis have additionally been handed welcome information with the the return to coaching of Oscar Bobb after the 21-year-old Norwegian’s five-month absence with a fractured leg.