Ferran is already from City: “It is a dream to work with Guardiola”

Ferran Torres is already a Manchester City player until 2025. The Valencian man underwent a medical examination in Barcelona on Tuesday (Manchester did not do it to avoid having to undergo quarantine) and there, in the afternoon, he signed his new contract. Valencia, according to sources close to the operation, will enter 23 million euros fixed plus another 12 depending on different variables, with a high percentage of them in requirements that are likely to be met.

Valencia thus consumes the first of the several transfers it will carry out this summer (it has to enter around 100 million for the sale of assets to balance its budget) and the City signs with Ferran its 22nd footballer born in Spain in its history (counting only those who have had a presence in the first team, because some more have passed through the English club's youth team).

Valencia, when making the transfer of Ferran official, He took advantage of the situation to leave a message for the player, noting that if the relationship has broken it is because Ferran wanted: “You came to our @Academia_VCF at 7 years old. We have accompanied you in this training process as a footballer and as a person. Now you have decided that at this point our paths separate. @ FerranTorres20, good luck in your new journey with @ManCity “.

Ferran: “We all want to play in attack teams like City”

Ferran made the Manchester City official website his first statements as a player of the English club. The Foios midfielder said that the style of the City is one of the reasons for his decision to land there, as well as putting himself under the command of Pep Guardiola. “I am very happy to join City (…) All the players want to participate in attack teams and Manchester City is one of the most attacking in world football, “he said. “Pep (Guardiola) encourages an open and aggressive style, which I love, and he is a coach with a proven track record, he improves the players. Having him monitor my development is a dream. “ Lastly, Ferran hopes to reap collective successes in Manchester: “The club has won many trophies in the past 10 years and I look forward to playing an important role in continuing those successes.”

Txiki Begiristain: “Ferran has impressed us a lot”

Manchester City football director, Spanish Txiki BegiristáinHe remarked that “we have closely followed Ferran's progress and he has impressed us a lot; he is young and has a lot of potential yet to be exploited, his technical qualities are exactly what we are looking for in the extreme. It is fast, direct, can create space with a single movement and is capable of producing match-winning moments; I feel like this is the perfect place for it to develop and with Pep in charge he can take his game to the next level. “

Ferran takes the witness from David Silva, who in 2010 made the same journey from Mestalla to Etihad Stadium for 28.5 million euros and who will say goodbye to the English club when City's career in the Champions League ends. Precisely Silva is the Spanish player who has made the most career in Manchester, club of which he is currently the captain. The first Spaniard to play for City was Albert Riera, who did it for six months on loan (between January and June 2006, in which he played 15 games); while The first transfer was paid to Real Sociedad by Javier Garrido (2.2 million) in 2007.

Ferran: 97 games with Valencia at just 20 years old

Ferran, best footballer of the U19 European Championship held in the summer of 2019, leaves Valencia at the age of 20 and after 97 official matches with the first team, becoming the youngest youth squad to reach this number of meetings in the century-old history of the Ché entity. Ferran's departure, although his contract ended in 2021 and for months he had stopped listening to Valencia in his attempts to present him with a renewal offer, calls into question the quarry policy that Peter Lim's project always has in mind.

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Valencia have always lagged behind when tying Ferran short, so far behind that in the end it has gone by just 25% of its termination clause. Ferran, a footballer who first stepped on the Paterna facilities at the age of 6, has renewed in recent years up to two times in just seven months (October 2017 and April 2018), but the only thing that Valencia managed to do was raise his clause, especially the first time, when Barcelona came close to signing him for 8 million. But Mateu Alemany failed to convince him to do so beyond three years in view (until 2020 the first time, until 2021, in the last signed contract).

Alcácer: the first youth squad transferred in the Lim era

The sale of Ferran is the second in a benchmark of the quarry that Valencia has made since it became the property of Lim (2015). Precisely in another summer in which the Mestalla club faced a season in which it was not going to participate in European competition (2016), Lim transferred Paco Alcácer to Barcelona for 30 million. The striker leads the ranking of youth squads for which Valencia has made the most cash in its history. It is followed by David Silva and now Ferran himself, who could lead the ranking if the minimum requirements are met to receive at least 8 of the 12 million included in the variable contract. Ferran is the second Valencia squad player who is expressly asked for by Pep Guardiola for his projects: the first was Juan Bernat when he was coach of Bayern Munich.

From the extreme Joan Roman to Ferran Torres

Joan Roman, who joined Manchester City Sub'18 in 2009 (paid Espanyol just over a million euros for the young left winger), was the first Spaniard who landed in the English facilities after the purchase of the club by Mansour Bin Zayed, who became owner on September 23, 2009. However, the first media signing of a Spanish after the arrival of the tycoon was David Silva and the last until Ferran, Rodri, who also happens to be the Spanish for whom City has paid the most (70 million).

Other Spanish footballers who have passed through City before Ferran are: Denis Suarez, Negredo, Javi García, Nolith or Jesus Navas. The City, beyond contrasting players in the League such as those mentioned, has been betting on young Spaniards for more than a decade, as are the cases of Pedro Porro or Eric Garcia. Thus, through the ranks of the base football of the City (even some militated in other clubs directly on loan) have passed: Aleix Garcia, Pablo Marí, Angeliño, Adrian Berabé, Brahim Díaz, Manu García, Rubén Sobrino, Pablo Maffeo and José Pozo.