Manchester City Has finished £43m bargain contract for Monaco midfielder Bernardo Silva
Manchester City has finished a £43m bargain for Portugal attacking midfielder Bernardo Silva from French champions Monaco.
The 22-year-old, who will join City on 1 July, stated: "I'm currently at one of the best groups on the planet".
Silva has shown up for Monaco this season - incorporating two against City in the Champions League - scoring 11 goals and 12 goals-assists.
He said the opportunity to work with Pep Guardiola affected his choice.
"Obviously when you have the chance of being trained by Guardiola, you don't state no," additional the playmaker, which has played 12 times for Portugal, scoring once.
"If not the best mentor on the planet, he is one of the best.
Guardiola's City completed third in the Premier League this season, securing Champions League football one year from now.
Silva was indispensable to the Monaco side that achieved the semi-finals, enduring inevitable thrashing to Juventus, who play Real Madrid in the last on Saturday, 3 June.
'The best I've played against this season'
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Previous Tottenham midfielder Jermaine Jenas, talking on BBC Radio 5 live
I am amazed in that I imagine that is the one territory of the pitch where they have enough choices. Manchester City's attacking has been shocking this season. Bernardo Silva is fundamentally the same as David Silva. I wouldn't release David Silva, I believe he's been enormous.
You don't know whether different clubs were prepared to push the catch and City thought 'we must do it'. There are a few players that tagged along and you need to do it there and after that.
Tottenham defender Danny Rose, talking on BBC Radio 5 live
I played against him away this season and he's the best rival I confronted. It's an incredible expansion and gives Pep Guardiola another assaulting alternative.
As indicated by the examination from BBC Sport's Simon Stone:
Silva was incredible in Monaco's 5-3 Champions League overcome at Etihad Stadium in February and Pep Guardiola chose the Portuguese were a man he needed. To such an extent, indeed, that he is set up to put him among the main five most costly players in City history.
A result of the Benfica Foundation, Silva is an assaulting right-sided midfield player and is, at 22, quite recently the sort of age Guardiola likes - mature enough to comprehend his part, sufficiently youthful to retain the unpredictable strategic lessons his new chief grants.
In the event that, obviously, Kyle Walker likewise arrives this late spring from Tottenham, Guardiola will have the crude pace from his full-back that makes the risk - and space - for Silva to cut inside and slice open resistances.
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