Manchester City want to sign centre-back from Premier League rivals

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Bournemouth defender Nathan Ake is likely to join Manchester City this summer, write L'Equipe.

With Vincent Kompany having joined Anderlecht and Nicolas Otamendi also linked with a move away, Pep Guardiola is keen to acquire at least one centre-back ahead of next season.

The Premier League champions have been tracking Harry Maguire but have been put off by Leicester's £90m asking price.

And City have now turned their attention towards Ake, who joined Bournemouth from Chelsea for £20m in 2017.

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Greg Lea is a freelance football journalist who's filled in wherever FourFourTwo needs him since 2014. He became a Crystal Palace fan after watching a 1-0 loss to Port Vale in 1998, and once got on the scoresheet in a primary school game against Wilfried Zaha's Whitehorse Manor (an own goal in an 8-0 defeat).