Manchester City will reportedly prioritise signing Southampton's Ryan Bertrand in January after Napoli's Faouzi Ghoulamu2015previously believed to be the top full-back targetu2015suffered a knee injury.
That's according to The Sun's Daniel Cutts, who reports City have been watching Bertrand for the last two seasons, and that manager Pep Guardiola is a fan. The Citizens addressed the left-back position by adding Benjamin Mendy during the summer, but he suffered a serious injury in September.
Ghoulam, who is set to become a free agent at the end of the season and could have arrived on a discount in January as a result, had been linked with the club the most of late, but an untimely injury of his own put a stop to those rumours, per James Robson of the Manchester Evening News:
The Algerian suffered the injury in Wednesday's UEFA Champions League match against City, after impressing during the opening 30 minutes.