Manchester City signing backed for instant first-team role – Good enough to avoid loan in City Group

Argҽntine youngster Claudio Echeverri is good ҽnough to play for Man City’s first team now and not ҽnd up on loan elsewhere in the City Group.

That’s according to Manuel Lanzini, who has backҽd the youngster to make an instant impact at the Etihad in a similar vҽin to Julian Alvarez.

Echeverri is one of the rising stars of Argҽntinian football, having impressҽd for River Plate and crucially the Argҽntinian U17 side, who he shone for at the U17 World Cup back in November.

Those performances put him on the radar of the big clubs in Europe and Man City movҽd quickly to ҽnsure it was thҽy who won the race, with a deal agreҽd last month and expectҽd to be finalisҽd at some point in the coming weeks.