Manchester City chief executive Ferran Soriano claims Juventus defender Leonardo Bonucci “called us” regarding a transfer.
The centre-back was heavily linked with a move to the English side this summer after manager Pep Guardiola admitted he's “one of my favourite ever players”.
The Italian international ultimately remained in Turin, and is thought to be close to a new contract, but it’s now being claimed he wanted to make the move to the Citizens.
Manchester City chief executive Ferran Soriano claims Juventus defender Leonardo Bonucci “called us” regarding a transfer.
The centre-back was heavily linked with a move to the English side this summer after manager Pep Guardiola admitted he's “one of my favourite ever players”.
The Italian international ultimately remained in Turin, and is thought to be close to a new contract, but it’s now being claimed he wanted to make the move to the Citizens.
“At the moment there are a lot of players that want to play under Pep,” Soriano said on RAC1.
“The Italian central defender Bonucci wants to play for him and he called us. I called the Juventus sporting director [Fabio Paratici] and he told me they didn't want to sell. There ended the story.”