Get the biggest City transfer window stories, analysis and updates delivered straight to your inbox Now is a perfect time for Manchester City to take advantage of the economic and organisational problems besetting football clubs because of the pandemic.
Manchester United' s pursuit of Raphael Varane are demonstrating exactly the type of quick-witted attitude required in this climate, with the club exploiting Varane's contract situation at Real Madrid, and their financial mess, to lure him to Old Trafford.
And Man City could use the same trick in their transfer policy this summer by approaching players with only a year remaining on their contracts and uncertain futures ahead of them.
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