Speaking after the big Manchester City home victory to Crystal Palace (5-0 final score), the Citizens’ full back Pablo Zabaleta has, in fact, announced his farewell to the club after nine seasons. The Argentine is out of contract at the end of the season in Manchester and will not renew his contract, with City ready to replace him with Kyle Walker from Tottenham, who is also followed by Inter. Zabaleta, has often ended up in the sights of the Nerazzurri, and it is not excluded that his profile could be included in the evaluations that will be made in the Inter home for the full back role over the next few weeks, with Roma also interested. Here are Zabaleta’s words: “I have a special relationship with City: I’ve been here for nine seasons, and the love for this team is great. But in football, you have to make difficult decisions sometimes: I have to make a choice that is best for me and, if possible, for the club. We all know that some of us will leave, but the most important thing is to think about the good of the City, to finish as well as possible with a qualification for the next Champions League. , I’m not thinking about my next contract, but I will wait for the end of the season.”
Source: Mirror.co.uk
Zabaleta is good, proved player. Old? I don’t care as long our “almost decent” fullback (dumbo, naga) sit in the bench..
The whole article is ridiculous, first, we shouldn’t be interested in Zabaleta, of course he’s much better than whole our fullbacks combined, but I prefer Conti, because he knows the league and would be immediate improving of XI (just like Gaglia). And, who in the world, who plays in Tottenham, would be interested of joining City or Inter (sad but true)?
Zabaleta is a good player, but at 32 years of age, it is silly to pursue him at all.
Um if we sign him on a free for 2-3mil a season I don’t see the problem… our team lacked experience!
The problem is we can’t build chemistry around Zabaleta. We might use him for a couple of seasons then have to get another fullback right away. As a general rule of thumb, you have to be very careful signing players over 30.