Manchester City Transfer News: Latest Rumours on Julian Weigl and Kasper Dolberg

Manchester City are reportedly interested in Borussia Dortmund star Julian Weigl and could be set to offer him four times his current salary in order to land him.

That’s according to German outlet Bild (h/t Alex Porter of the Manchester Evening News), with Barcelona, Real Madrid and AC Milan also in pursuit.

The 21-year-old signed for BVB last year and has rapidly established himself as a key player for the Bundesliga outfit, as DW Sports’ Stefan Bienkowski noted:

I still can’t believe how important Julian Weigl has become to this Dortmund team. Every single ball from defence goes through him first.

— Stefan Bienkowski (@SBienkowski) March 10, 2016

Weigl typically plays in front of the back four and acts as a deep-lying playmaker for Dortmund. He reads the game well for a player of his age, makes use of his exceptional distribution to help build play from the back, recycles possession and knits play together in midfield.

The German also possesses excellent technical skills, and he makes full use of them to avoid incoming tackles or drawing fouls. Here’s a look at his Bundesliga stats for the current campaign, per Squawka:

Weigl doesn’t tend to create much in the way of chances but rather helps more advanced players do so with his incisive passes from deep, and his discipline is such that he rarely pushes far into the final third.

Here’s a selection of his …

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