• ‘We cannot pay that right now,they tell me. That is the truth’
• £57m fee agreed for Aymeric Laporte would be a club recordPep Guardiola has said that Manchester City cannot spend astronomical on every squad position despite the richest club in the country having agreed a club-record fee for Athletic Bilbao’s Aymeric Laporte.
City met Laporte’s £57m buyout clause on Friday and at 23 the centre-half represents better value than paying West Brom over the odds for the 30-year-used Jonny Evans, though Guardiola is at pains to stress that even he must work to a budget.
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Source: guardian.co.uk