Pep admits transfer target was “stolen” by Chelsea

Chelsea’s signing of Jorginho caught everyone off guard, given it looked certain he was heading to Manchester City.

We’re now back in press conference season, and both Pep Guardiola and Maurizio Sarri have been speaking today about their summer business.

When asked about what had happened with the midfielder’s transfer, Pep didn’t really hesitate to admit that City thought they had had the Italian in the bag before Chelsea swooped for him, as you can see in his quotes featured in the quote embedded below:

https://twitter.com/City_Watch/status/1025359227706138626

It’s rather satisfying for Chelsea fans to hear that they pulled a fast one on another team, given that we’ve tended to be on the receiving end of that kind of thing more often than not in recent windows.

For once we had the last laugh in this case, and we’ll find out this season just how much City might regret letting us pull a fast one on them.

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