‘Tell Barca to take Otamendi or Stones’ – Man City fans react as Eric Garcia becomes Barcelona’s priority

Manchester City Fans have been reacting to a post on Twitter, which relays reports that Eric Garcia has already agreed to leave and return to Barcelona.

Barcelona are looking to former La Masia prodigy Eric García as a long-term replacement for Gerard Piqué having sold the youngster to Manchester City in 2017.

According to Catalan newspaper Sport via Barca Universal, The La Masia graduate Eric Garcia has personally agreed to join FC Barcelona, the club which helped develop him as a youngster.

The report claims that Manchester City has already signed a replacement, namely Nathan Aké from Bournemouth. According to Daily Mail today, Bournemouth accepted a £41million offer from Manchester City for the central defender.

Aké is left-footed, so there is a suspicion he is being brought in purely to be Aymeric Laporte’s backup. García is right-footed, so perhaps there is no connection between the two players’ cases.

In reaction to the report shared on Twitter by City Chief and Man City Xtra, Manchester City fans have expressed their thoughts and opinions.

No Garcia is staying. Tell Barca to take Otamendi or Stones

— AK Ayyoub (@10ayyoub_k) July 30, 2020

No we are not selling him. Garcia is here to stay.

— SC (@5amrat) July 30, 2020

We have Ake get rid of Otamendi and maybe Stones and just play Garcia as 2nd or 3rd choice and Harwood Bellis as 4th dont buy old Koulibaly..

— Rafał Sala (@rafiii1995) July 30, 2020

After breaking into the first team,being started in City’s most important games then leaving to an uncertain future at Barca..dnt think so

— Cityzennn (@thecityzensfc) July 30, 2020

Honestly, we have Tosin waiting in the wings and I’d be happy to see him as 4th choice next season. Think we could get a big fee for Garcia as well.

— Alberto Buckley (@Abuckley000) July 30, 2020

Gladly. If we do everything to keep a player and they still wanna leave, show them the exit.

— 𝑆𝑖𝑠𝑦𝑎✪ (@j_s_xv) July 30, 2020

“last few days there’s been rumours that he’s signing new contract and that he is also leaving so cant beleive this until something actually happens”, claimed one fan.

while another asked, “Seriously ? It’s konwn to all that FCB is becoming weaker and weaker. Now all of the team is supported only by Messi ,if Messi leaves, FCB will break up. He is so young, and he can in the taught of Pep, Why he wants to leave there? it’s unreasonable.”

while another tweeted, “People need to stop worrying, why would Garcia leave the best manager in the world and guaranteed game time next year to play for a sinking barcelona with messi about to leave”

Another tweet said: “People can shout rumours but it has been a while now, you would think he’d just sign the contract if he had no doubts. I personally think he’s either waiting to see which CB’s we sign or just hoping we buckle and improve the contract. If he wanted to leave, we would know it.”

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