The winter transfer window in European football has been closed, and the wealthy Manchester City finally only spent £18.5 million to sign Argentine red star Julian Alvarez, which is simply not shocking compared to Newcastle and Juve, who have thrown more than 80 million. However, Manchester City is not idle. On 1 February, they officially announced the successful extension of the contract with main left-back Cancelo, and the new contract of the Portuguese Flying Wings will expire until 2027, when he will be 33 years old.
In the summer of 2019, Cancello joined Manchester City for 65 million euros and signed a five-year contract. In other words, the Portuguese still have at least two and a half years left on a contract with Manchester City, but given his outstanding performance, City can't wait to complete a contract extension with him, locking the talented winger firmly in the Etihad.
This is a very timely contract extension, this season, Cancelo continued to play well, he played for the team in all competitions 29 games, cut 3 goals and 8 assists, including 22 Premier League games 1 goal 5 assists, 41838 passes and 1584 successful passes are 1st in the Premier League, 37 interceptions are ranked 5th in the Premier League, 6 shots ranked 12th in the Premier League, and 1st in Manchester City. In addition to the Premier League, Cancelo has also performed well in the Champions League, with 15 interceptions, eight breakouts, three assists and five participating goals being the first in Manchester City, and the 11 excellent scoring opportunities are ranked second in Manchester City. Arguably, the 27-year-old Portugal international is at the peak of his career.
Born in the youth training of Portuguese giants Benfica, Cancello has played for Valencia in La Liga and Serie A duo Inter Milan and Juventus in his career, he has good speed, technology and strength, breakthrough sharpness, accurate passing, and a good shot, but in the position of full-back, Cancello's defensive and complementary awareness is more general, which also makes his back often become the focus of the opponent's attack area. Whether in Valencia or Serie A, this weakness was very obvious. So after Manchester City signed him with Danilo + cash totaling 65 million euros in the summer of 2019, it still caused a lot of doubts.
In fact, in the first season at Manchester City, Cancello was really a bit unsatisfied, and Guardiola bought him mainly to give the aging Kyle Walker a qualified successor, and hoped that he could form a real two-wing flight on the right and Benjamin Mendy on the left. It didn't happen that Kyle Walker was getting more and more courageous, and now at the age of 32, he is still alive and kicking, which makes Canselo a little confused, and he once had the idea of leaving the team.
However, after a season of running-in, Guardiola gradually found Cancello's instruction manual. In City's tactical system, although Cancelo plays as a full-back, in the game he often presupposes the midfield to form a practical double back with Rodri or Fernandinho in the middle of the midfield, thus completely liberating Gundogan and De Bruyne. Even in some games, Guardiola directly arranged for Canceló to play in the middle of the midfield, making him the midfield organizer of Manchester City, this seemingly chaotic practice of the Mandarin Duck, but the characteristics of Cancelo's accurate breakthrough of the ball were fully played, and the weakness of his lack of defensive awareness was also well compensated. Of course, City's backline has a defensive master like Ruben Dias, and the space left after the premise of Canselo's position has been made up by him seamlessly.
Guardiola is well known for his knowledge, and Hassello is not the first player to soar under his command, and certainly not the last. Today's Manchester City, although the Premier League record of 4 years and 3 wins is impressive, but because there is no Champions League title, it is still a breath away from the giants, but with Guardiola's golden signboard, many powerful players will come to him because of him, and it is only a matter of time before they reach the top of Europe.