Sources: Klopp's former assistant to join Man City

Manchester City are closing successful connected a woody to sanction Pep Lijnders arsenic portion of Pep Guardiola's new-look backroom staff, sources person told ESPN.

Lijnders, who served arsenic Jürgen Klopp's adjunct astatine Liverpool, is acceptable to regenerate Juanma Lilo, whose declaration astatine the Etihad Stadium volition expire this summer.

Fellow adjunct Íñigo Domínguez is besides leaving, on with set-piece manager Carlos Vicens, who has agreed to go caput manager of Portuguese broadside Braga.

Sources person told ESPN that talks with Lijnders person been affirmative and that the nine anticipation to marque an announcement erstwhile different caller additions to Guardiola's unit person been agreed.

Lijnders joined Liverpool nether Brendan Rodgers successful 2014 and began moving with Klopp pursuing the German's assignment astatine Anfield successful October 2015.

He took implicit arsenic caput manager of Dutch broadside NEC successful 2018, but returned to Liverpool six months later.

He announced his departure on with Klopp past summertime and was named caput manager of Red Bull Salzburg up of the 2024-25 campaign.

The 42-year-old has been retired of enactment since December aft being dismissed by the Austrian broadside aft conscionable 29 games.

Meanwhile, sources person told ESPN that City are exploring a woody for Lyon guardant Rayan Cherki.

The 21-year-old is viewed arsenic an alternate to Florian Wirtz, who is nearing a determination to Liverpool. There is besides involvement successful Nottingham Forest's Morgan Gibbs-White.

Sources person told ESPN that City anticipation to necktie up a woody for AC Milan midfielder Tijjani Reijnders earlier the FIFA Club World Cup.

Clubs are allowed to motion players betwixt June 1 and June 10 up of the tourney successful the United States.

Guardiola and players not progressive successful planetary games are owed backmost successful grooming connected June 9. They are acceptable to alert to their grooming basal successful Florida connected June 12 earlier their opening crippled against Wydad AC successful Philadelphia connected June 18.