Barcelona want to sign Eric Garcia from Manchester City - report
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ByEurosport
Updated 27/07/2020 at 12:58 GMT
It's front page news in Spain. Barcelona want to sign Manchester City's 19-year-old central defender Eric Garcia this summer, according to Mundo Deportivo.
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The Spanish centre back, who came through La Masia academy before joining City in 2017, has impressed in the Premier League - making 13 league appearances during the 19/20 season.
According to Mundo Deportivo, the Spain U21 international is being considered as a long-term replacement to complement Samuel Umtiti and Gerard Pique.
Barcelona would apparently also consider bringing him in on a free next season.
Garcia makes sense for Barcelona
As the report rightly points out, Umtiti is injury-prone while Pique is only getting older.
Signing the highly-rated 19-year-old, who has grown up playing the Barcelona way, would seemingly do no harm in helping some of the defensive issues Barca endured last season.
A successor to Pique, though? Time will tell.
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