Manchester City midfielder Kalvin Phillips is set to leave the club on loan as he approaches reports deliver at newly promoted Ipswich Town.
Phillips has struggled to establish himself at City following a £45m switch from Leeds United in 2022. He made just six starts in 18 months in Manchester and ended last season on loan at West Ham United, where his playing time was not at its best. after a bad start.
The former England Men's Player of the Year returned to City in pre-season and collected a Community Shield winner's medal last weekend as an unused substitute at Wembley. But his immediate future for the 2024/25 season lies elsewhere.
Fabrizio Romano writes that Ipswich's medical was completed on Thursday night, with the Suffolk club preparing to announce his arrival sometime over the weekend.
Phillips will be a seventh summer signing from Ipswich but offers probably more Premier League experience than all the others put together. The 28-year-old also knows all too well what it's like to be promoted recently, having made his top-flight debut with Leeds in 2020 at the age of 24.
City's options will not change much without Phillips, although the club may use the surprise windfall of selling Julian Alvarez for £81.5m to invest in a new midfielder – Newcastle United's Bruno Guimaraes is a former player. interested.
Pep Guardiola also looked to promote from within, starting home-grown talents James McAtee and Nico O'Reilly in the Community Shield. That was also his ploy to replace Alvarez, who was expected to play a key role in striker Oscar Bobb until he was brutally beaten with an injury.
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