Man City advancing in talks to sign amazing star who’s the new Cancelo

The function and significance of a modern-day fullback may be very a lot altering earlier than our eyes, with quotes comparable to “nobody desires to be a Gary Neville” starting to lose their that means.

High sides and coaches, largely due to Manchester City‘s Pep Guardiola, are starting to make use of their full-backs in quite a lot of methods each on and off the ball, typically changing into wingers, central midfielders and even attacking midfielders (quantity 10s) on the ball to help their crew.

Tactical flexibility is changing into extra necessary, and with this, the significance of getting high-quality and versatile fullbacks is changing into a key issue for elite sides to function.

Guardiola has led the cost for utilizing his fullbacks in midfield, and he might effectively be getting one other particular participant this month with the talent set to do that.

Man Metropolis taking a look at their new Cancelo

In accordance with reports from Football Insider, talks have been advancing in current days between Manchester Metropolis and Juventus for his or her versatile defender, Andrea Cambiaso.

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The sensation is that an settlement for the 24-year-old will likely be reached both this month or in the summertime.

The Italian can play a spread of various positions, enjoying without any consideration and left fullback, inverting into midfield zones from this place, and even beginning as a right-winger on a number of events this season for Thiago Motta’s Juventus facet.

Cambiaso has made 26 appearances for the Italian giants this season, scoring two targets, offering two assists, contributing to 12 clear sheets and totalling 1,859 minutes performed.

Cambiaso vs Cancelo comparisons

One participant Guardiola has had in his time at Manchester Metropolis who performed an identical function to Cambiaso, is João Cancelo. The Portugal worldwide signed for Metropolis in 2019, becoming a member of from Juventus for a fee of around £60m.

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Cancelo made 154 appearances for City in his time at the club, scoring 9 targets and offering 21 assists. Whether or not he began at left-back or right-back, the Portugal worldwide supplied Guardiola tactical versatility, tweaking his place on the ball with a view to set his crew up as he preferred.

That is precisely what he might now with Cambiaso, a participant who has been in comparison with Cancelo by Peter Young of Football Italia.

Andrea Cambiaso vs João Cancelo (2020/21) comparability
Stats (per 90 minutes)	Cambiaso	Cancelo
Objectives + Assists	0.19	0.24
Progressive Carries	3.68	2.88
Progressive Passes	4.75	7.86
Go Completion %	88.8%	85.7%
Key Passes	3.04	5.79
Passes into Pen Space	1.27	2.51
Crosses into Pen Space	0.39	0.37
Shot-Creating Actions	3.33	3.07
Tackles + Interceptions	2.60	4.34
Ball Recoveries	4.71	6.32
Stats taken from FBref

When analysing each gamers (Cancelo’s 2020/21 season at Metropolis) you may see each gamers ooze class on the ball, providing glorious progressive numbers, being key creators regardless of being fullbacks for his or her sides, and nonetheless making excessive numbers of defensive actions per sport.

Cambiaso has been described as “uber-press resistant” by Ben Mattinson, because of his ambipedal qualities (two-footed) and small turning radius. This permits him to obtain the ball in all zones of the pitch, enjoying line-splitting passes with each ft, having no angle bias and due to this fact making it exhausting for defenders to lure him to 1 facet.

Metropolis might lastly substitute Cancelo with an excessive technician within the type of Cambiaso, who, alongside Rico Lewis, might give Guardiola the large defensive pairing he desires with a view to dominate video games and make tactical tweaks at his personal leisure.