Manuel Pellegrini suggested Manchester City will not make any signings in the January transfer window as he declared they already have a “complete squad.”
Pellegrini shrugged off speculation that City will move for Real Madrid midfielder Isco, a player he managed at Malaga and tried to sign when he was appointed at the Etihad Stadium in 2013.
Although City were active in the last January transfer window, bringing in striker Wilfried Bony at the start of 2015, his club were English football’s biggest spenders last summer, paying out more than £150 million as Raheem Sterling, Kevin De Bruyne, Fabian Delph and Nicolas Otamendi were among their recruits.
“I don’t talk about rumours,” Pellegrini said in a news conference, giving his stock answer. “I am telling you what I am thinking about for our squad in this moment.”
However, the Chilean appeared to rule out making any major moves as he added: “Really I think the squad is complete. As always, I said that we are not going to close the window [now] but we are not really thinking of any special players to bring in.”
Pellegrini, whose team are away at Watford on Saturday, will allow his players to stay up to celebrate New Year’s Eve but joked they must go to bed soon after.
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