After 319 games and 13 major titles – Kyle Walker set to depart Man City for AC Milan

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AC Milan are set to finish the signing of Manchester Metropolis full-back Kyle Walker, after the England worldwide agreed a reported 12-month mortgage cope with the Serie A giants. The deal will take Walker as much as throughout the final six months of his present contract with the Premier League giants, at which level he’ll be capable of think about affords from different golf equipment. In keeping with Fabrizio Romano, the Italian membership will cowl Walker’s Man Metropolis wage over the course of the mortgage deal and have an choice to purchase the participant at any level. 

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The 34-year-old full-back had beforehand been closely linked with a transfer to Bayern Munich in 2023 however as a substitute opted to signal a contract extension with Man Metropolis. Nevertheless, age appears to have lastly caught up with the England worldwide, with a hamstring damage hampering Walker’s effectiveness in direction of the top of the earlier league marketing campaign. To date this season Walker has solely began for Man Metropolis in 41% of their league video games and has largely been deemed surplus to requirement. As such, a departure within the January switch window comes as no shock. Regardless of being  closely linked with a transfer to cross-city rivals Inter, Walker appears to have settled on a transfer to AC Milan.

Walker leaves Man Metropolis as one thing of a symbolic departure from Pep Guardiola’s squad. Since making the transfer to Man Metropolis in 2017 from Tottenham in a deal price just below €53 million, Walker has been an ever-present member of Guardiola’s back-line. In that point the defender has received six Premier League titles, 4 English League Cups, two FA Cups and the all-important Champions League in 2023. And in some ways the participant’s exceptional tempo was seen because the cornerstone of Guardiola’s techniques to play a excessive line of defense and impose his workforce’s will on opposing sides all through the years. Having made 319 appearances for the membership throughout all competitions, Walker is Man Metropolis’s twenty third most used participant within the membership’s historical past. Once we couple that along with his time at Tottenham, it signifies that Walker has made 410 appearances within the Premier League, which is the forty first finest return for any participant within the competitors’s historical past and a file bested by solely two energetic gamers – Ashley Younger (471) and James Milner (637).