Manchester City would be willing to sell Bernardo Silva for £75 million this summer.
That is the claim today from 90min, who have said that the Portuguese has reaffirmed his desire to leave the Etihad Stadium.
Bernardo has just finished another superb campaign with City, in which he played a key role on the way to an amazing Treble.
Bernardo made 55 appearances across all competitions, scoring seven goals and making eight assists.
He started both the FA Cup and Champions League finals, underlining his importance to Pep Guardiola.
But the game against Inter may well have been his final appearance for City, with speculation rife about his future.
Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona are the two teams to have been linked the most.
But he will not come cheap for potential suitors…
Manchester City willing to sell Bernardo Silva for £75 million
According to 90min today, Bernardo has informed the club that he wishes to leave.
That is something that should not come as too much of a surprise. It’s thought the 28-year-old has wanted to leave in previous windows.
The most interesting line is that City would apparently now be wiling to sell for £75 million.
Should a club actually pay this figure, Bernardo would become the club’s biggest ever sale by some distance, ahead of Raheem Sterling.
Sterling left the club last year to join Chelsea in a deal worth around £50 million.
£75 million would be a fair price for Bernardo Silva, but PSG will bank on the player putting pressure on to leave
£75 million for Bernardo would be a more than fair fee to receive.
The player has two years left on his contract which isn’t a super long time. But this is a player who is world-class, and has been right at the forefront of City’s dominance over the last five or six years.
He is an amazing technician, a workhorse and someone who can play absolutely anywhere on the pitch and be good. Kevin De Bruyne recently joked he could played ‘about 19 positions’.
He has been complimented so much during his time at the club. Sky pundit Gary Neville was almost lost for words when Bernardo went up to get his Premier League medal after the Chelsea game, before settling for ‘ just amazing’.
Barcelona surely don’t have the financial means of signing Bernardo.
PSG probably do though. But they will not want to pay that much if they can help it. They will hope that Bernardo applies the pressure to leave, potentially by putting in a transfer request.
Hopefully we don’t see anything like that, and that Bernardo’s sale is nice and straightforward and benefits all parties.
