Man City defender Eliaquim Mangala poised for move to LyonPlayer is spotted at French club's training ground as Manchester City seek to off-load £42million flop Eliaquim Mangala is closing in on a move to Lyon after arriving in the French city today. The Manchester City defender, who will be sold this summer, has been pictured outside the Ligue 1 club's training ground, and it is hoped that a deal, worth up to £18million, will be tied up in the next 24 hours.Mangala still has two years left on his City contract, but he was loaned out to Valencia after a poor couple of seasons for the Blues, following a £42million move from Porto in 2015, and after John Stones was brought in to provide competition for Nicolas Otamendi , Aleks Kolarov and Vincent Kompany . With his confidence at a low ebb, a season on loan at Valencia helped him to rebuild his career, and the La Liga club wanted to keep him.
He had expressed some hope that he could stay at City and learn from Pep Guardiola, saying he learned more in a month under the Catalan than he did in two years with Manuel Pellegrini.
But he had already been written off by the Blues after a series of nervous displays in the Premier League – and they wanted to recoup as much of the fee, which was a club record for a defender at the time, as possible.
City are trying to ditch their recent policy of sending out players on loan and want to sell Mangala this summer, partly to fund their own big transfer spending plans.
Valencia could not afford the asking price for the France internatiomal but Lyon, who are showing ambition in transfer market by signing Bertrand Traore from Chelsea for £16million and hanging on top in-demand striker Alexandre Lacazette, are set to cough up.
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