Manchester City Transfer News: Latest Rumours on Moussa Dembele and Joe Hart

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has described Celtic striker and reported transfer target Moussa Dembele as an “exceptional player.”

According to Colin Mafham of the Sunday Express, City are one of a clutch of elite European clubs interested in the forward, including Chelsea, Manchester United and Real Madrid.

Guardiola spoke about the player in detail on Monday ahead of the meeting between City and Celtic and while he ruled out transfer pursuits of some players, he didn’t do the same for the young forward, per Stephen McGowan of the Scottish Daily Mail:

If you read the newspapers in the last six months, since I became a coach at Manchester City, maybe I have had contact with 126 players to buy them for Manchester City.

Dembele is another one. Every week I have contact for the next season to change players. Alexis (Sanchez) was the last one. But the quality (in Dembele) is there. He is an exceptional player.

Few would disagree with Guardiola’s assessment; the 20-year-old has excelled since joining the Scottish champions from Fulham in the summer. Indeed, the standout performance of his Celtic career so far came against City, when he netted twice in a pulsating 3-3 draw in the UEFA Champions League.

Per the competition’s official Twitter feed, the former Paris Saint-Germain youth player has been in exceptional form in front of goal:

Moussa Dembélé has …

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