{"id":5969,"date":"2025-02-03T12:17:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T13:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/?p=5969"},"modified":"2025-02-04T12:54:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T12:54:57","slug":"man-city-reject-chelsea-approach-for-wonderkid-who-wowed-pep-guardiola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/man-city-reject-chelsea-approach-for-wonderkid-who-wowed-pep-guardiola\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City reject Chelsea approach for wonderkid who \u2018wowed\u2019 Pep Guardiola"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pep Guardiola is a huge fan of Man City youngster Nico O\u2019Reilly (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Chelsea<\/a> have seen an approach for Manchester City’s<\/a> Nico O\u2019Reilly turned down, after thewonderkid ‘wowed’ Pep Guardiola<\/a> behind the scenes in training.<\/p>\n

The Blues signed Cole Palmer<\/a> from City in 2023 and wanted to bring in another young English talent before the winter transfer window closes today<\/a>.<\/p>\n

‘Chelsea keep working on [a] new midfielder with enquiry made to Man City for 2005 born midfielder Nico O\u2019Reilly,’ Fabrizio Romano posted on X<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The football transfers expert added: ‘City don\u2019t want to lose future control on the player – [it is] not an easy deal.’<\/p>\n

The Athletic<\/a> have since reported that Manchester City demanded a buy-back clause in any deal which Chelsea would not agree to and the move collapsed.<\/p>\n

The interest from Stamford Bridge was very real, but they did not want City to be able to take him back to the Etihad on their own terms.<\/p>\n

City manager Guardiola was left massively impressed with O\u2019Reilly following his superb pre-season performance against Barcelona in the summer.<\/p>\n

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Man City have turned down Chelsea’s approach for Nico O’Reilly (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

‘He had a long, long injury last season,’ Guardiola said about the England U20 international. ‘He came back in the middle of last season and trained with us and I said, \u2018Wow\u2019.<\/p>\n

‘This guy has good things. From corners, good header, so strong in the duels, in the small spaces he moves well. <\/p>\n

‘As an attacking midfielder, you will see him arrive [in the box], he can play the dual position, holding midfielder, attacking midfielder. It\u2019s because of the academy, we are blessed to have these players.’<\/p>\n

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Man City want a buy-back clause in order to sell Nico O’Reilly (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

O’Reilly made his senior debut for City in the Community Shield win over Manchester United on penalties at the start of the 2024-25 campaign. <\/p>\n

He’s played six games for City to date, registering his first goal for the club in the 8-0 FA Cup victory over Salford City last month.<\/p>\n

Speaking after City’s win over Salford, Guardiola said: ‘[O’Reilly] played for the first time in his life at left-back and played really, really good.<\/p>\n

‘He made a good goal. He has the conditions to play holding midfielder, but I think maybe he doesn\u2019t believe it completely – he\u2019s an attacking midfielder\u2026 In holding midfield, you have more spaces – his physicality for long balls and his pace. He\u2019s another talent we trust a lot.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pep Guardiola is a huge fan of Man City youngster Nico O\u2019Reilly (Picture: Getty) Chelsea have seen an approach for Manchester City’s Nico O\u2019Reilly turned down, after thewonderkid ‘wowed’ Pep Guardiola behind the scenes in training. The Blues signed Cole Palmer from City in 2023 and wanted to bring in another young English talent before…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5969"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5975,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969\/revisions\/5975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}