'One of the best upcoming midfielders' - Nypan to excite Man City fans

Manchester City person agreed a £12.5m interest to motion 18-year-old midfielder Sverre Nypan from Norwegian broadside Rosenborg - and City fans person each crushed to beryllium excited astir the imaginable latest addition.

Teenager Nypan has represented his state astatine younker levels up to and including under-21s, and it is expected helium volition spell connected a season-long indebtedness for the 2025-26 campaign.

Nevertheless, the planned signing of the highly rated Nypan is simply a motion of City looking to the future.

His accomplishment would travel aft the caller June signings of left-back Rayan Ait-Nouri, winger Rayan Cherki, midfielder Tijani Reijnders and goalkeeper Marcus Bettinelli.

"Sverre Nypan has been regarded arsenic 1 of the champion talents successful Norway and been playing astatine a precise precocious level contempt being truthful young," said Norwegian writer Andreas Korssund., external

"He's been looked astatine arsenic the adjacent large happening from the Norwegian league, truthful it's not a astonishment he's securing specified a large move. The astonishment possibly is he's coming to City astatine specified a young age.

"If you look astatine the different Norwegian apical talents specified arsenic Erling Haaland [who went to Red Bull Salzburg and aboriginal Borussia Dortmund] and Antonio Nusa [who went to Club Brugge and past RB Leipzig], they went down the different route, going to a nine for guaranteed shot earlier looking elsewhere to the Premier League oregon La Liga."

Followers of Norwegian shot person witnessed a accelerated emergence for Nypan, who made his first-team debut astatine Rosenborg aged 15.

He has made a large content successful Norway implicit the past 2 seasons, winning the top-tier Eliteserien Young Player of the Year grant successful some 2023 and 2024.

He has mostly been utilized arsenic a cardinal midfielder but tin run arsenic an attacking midfield, winger oregon successful a centre-forward role, too, and is comfy utilizing either foot, is quick, a bully dribbler and capable to instrumentality connected and bushed a defender.

In 70 appearances for Rosenborg, helium has scored 14 goals and contributed 11 assists.

With him playing successful the aforesaid presumption and being from the aforesaid country, determination person been inevitable comparisons with Arsenal and Norway midfielder Martin Odegaard, who besides made his debut successful the Norwegian apical formation aged 15.

"Both are technically skilled and person bully passing abilities," said Korssund. "Odegaard mightiness beryllium much of a dribbler, portion Nypan is much idiosyncratic who controls the crippled from midfield.

"He is simply a spot much box-to-box than Odegaard. In my sentiment he's decidedly going to go 1 of Europe's perfectly champion midfielders."

Nypan played 28 of 30 league matches past year, scoring 8 goals to go the club's associated 2nd highest scorer of the campaign, with his archetypal elder hat-trick coming successful August during Rosenborg's 4-0 location triumph implicit Lillestrom.

Those goals helped Rosenborg decorativeness 4th and unafraid a spot successful Conference League qualifying, aft they had missed retired connected European shot past twelvemonth erstwhile finishing eighth successful 2023.

Nypan made his debut successful a 4-2 distant triumph implicit Jerv connected 6 November 2022, six weeks earlier his 16th day successful 1 of 2 appearances successful that season.

The pursuing twelvemonth was his breakthrough campaign.

In 2023, helium made 17 league starts, positive six substitute appearances, and besides featured successful 3 matches successful Conference League qualifying.

He played successful the 3-2 triumph implicit Northern Irish broadside Crusaders and past impressed during some legs of the 3rd qualifying circular necktie with Hearts.

Nypan, past lone 16, acceptable up a extremity successful Rosenborg's 2-1 first-leg win, but the Norwegians mislaid 3-1 astatine Tynecastle arsenic the Scottish broadside scraped done 4-3 connected aggregate acknowledgment to a last-minute victor from Cameron Devlin.

After that archetypal leg, past Hearts caput manager Frankie McAvoy felt Nypan had everything needed to scope the top, saying: "We knew helium was a peculiar subordinate and helium showed that.

"He besides appears to person a bully caput connected his shoulders and erstwhile you tin bash what helium does successful the last 3rd by creating scoring chances past you person a large accidental to beryllium successful.

"He has a monolithic aboriginal up of him."

It was not agelong aft his emergence earlier Nypan was catching the oculus of Europe's large clubs.

Norway's TV2 reported successful August 2023 that scouts from Manchester United had watched Nypan, but Rosenborg brag Alfred Johansson praised the youngster's attitude, stating: "He focuses connected enjoying shot and grooming each day.

"It's precise impressive, and that's however it should be, but not everyone would person been capable to bash it. That is beardown of Sverre."

Arsenal were funny successful the teen successful January 2025 and again this summer, with Aston Villa different 1 of the sides heavy linked with him, earlier Pep Guardiola's City had a bid accepted.

The transportation model reopens connected Monday erstwhile the woody could beryllium completed and it would beryllium a grounds merchantability for Rosenborg, beating the £8.5m they received erstwhile striker John Carew went to Valencia successful 2001.

City are successful the United States, with matches successful the Club World Cup against Moroccan broadside Wydad AC connected 18 June (17:00 BST), Al Ain of United Arab Emirates connected 23 June (02:00 BST) and past Italian broadside Juventus connected 26 June (20:00 BST).

If Guardiola's broadside marque it to the knockout stage, determination is simply a little window, from 27 June to 3 July, wherever they tin adhd 2 players to their squad database for the aboriginal stages of the tournament, truthful Nypan could marque his City debut then.

He would go the 3rd Norwegian subordinate astatine Etihad Stadium, joining up with striker Erling Haaland, 24, and attacking midfielder Oscar Bobb, 21.

Korssund felt it would instrumentality Nypan a portion to settee successful astatine City, but helium predicted helium could get to the precise top.

"It's a large measurement for him to spell to the Premier League, truthful he'll request clip to set earlier becoming a starter," said Korssund. "But I person nary uncertainty City person secured 1 of the champion upcoming midfielders successful the world.

"He's that benignant of subordinate we consciousness is going places. How radical speech astir him is akin to however Nusa, Odegaard and Haaland person been spoken about, some successful the media and by the fans."