Manchester Metropolis agree deal value as much as €100m for Lille’s Ayyoub Bouaddi | Manchester Metropolis

Manchester Metropolis have agreed a take care of Lille value €95m (£81.4m) plus €5m in potential add-ons for Ayyoub Bouaddi, with the Morocco midfielder’s arrival to take the membership’s summer season spend to almost £200m after Elliot Anderson’s £116m signing earlier within the window.

The 18-year-old was stood down from Lille’s Ligue 1 match towards Angers on Sunday earlier than a medical with Metropolis and his switch turning into official within the subsequent few days.

Bouaddi, who operates primarily as a No 6, began 5 of Morocco’s six video games on the World Cup match this summer season, together with the 2-0 quarter-final defeat by France. That was solely his eighth worldwide look. His Lille debut got here in an October 2023 Convention League group recreation– at 16 years and three days, it made him the youngest footballer to play within the competitors.

The vast majority of the payment for Bouaddi will come from the £65m sale of Rodri to Barcelona, which was sealed final week.

Anderson, who’s making his debut in Metropolis’s Premier League opener towards Bournemouth on Sunday, can play as No 6 or No 8, so Bouaddi might not go immediately into Enzo Maresca’s beginning XI.

Metropolis stay curious about Chelsea’s Enzo Fernández, additionally a midfielder. The west London membership need £120m for the Argentinian however Metropolis are thought to worth him at a decrease determine.