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title: "Manchester City: Fans urge club to sign Houssem Aouar after Lyon provide transfer boost"
canonical: "https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/man-city-fans-urge-club-to-sign-houssem-aouar-transfer-boost/"
type: "post"
language: "en-GB"
author: "Liam Togher"
section: "Manchester City Football Club"
published: "2020-05-11T18:00:51Z"
modified: "2020-05-11T18:00:51Z"
---

# Manchester City: Fans urge club to sign Houssem Aouar after Lyon provide transfer boost

**Plenty of Manchester City fans have implored the club to sign reported transfer target Houssem Aouar after his current club Lyon admitted he will be sold this summer.**

[L’Equipe](https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/les-notes/joueur/aouar-58614/ligue-1/2019-2020) reported \[via [Get French Football News](https://www.getfootballnewsfrance.com/2020/houssem-aouar-will-leave-lyon-this-summer-lequipe/)\] that the Ligue 1 side are resigned to losing the 21-year-old in the forthcoming transfer window and will sell him for a fee in the region of €50m (£43.75m), with the news shared on Twitter by [@City\_Chief](https://twitter.com/City_Chief/status/1259564963213049860).

> Houssem Aouar will be sold by Ligue 1 side Lyon this summer, for a fee of around €50m.
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> Lyon wants to sell him early this summer and reinvest the money.
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> \[L’Equipe via GFFN\] [pic.twitter.com/jzqsEmCh6G](https://t.co/jzqsEmCh6G)
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> — City Chief (@City\_Chief) [May 10, 2020](https://twitter.com/City_Chief/status/1259564963213049860?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

According to [L’Equipe](https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/les-notes/joueur/aouar-58614/ligue-1/2019-2020) \[via [Get French Football News](https://www.getfootballnewsfrance.com/2020/houssem-aouar-will-leave-lyon-this-summer-lequipe/)\], the midfielder is being very closely tracked by Manchester City and has a firm admirer in Pep Guardiola. The French under-21 international has [scored nine goals and set up another seven in 37 appearances](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/houssem-aouar/leistungsdaten/spieler/395693) at club level this season and, with Lyon [finishing outside the European qualification places](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/ligue-1/tabelle/wettbewerb/FR1/saison_id/2019) as the Ligue 1 season was [declared finished recently](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/apr/29/ligue-1-season-ending-questions-answers-psg-lyon-champions-league), the prospects of a transfer could be increased.

These Manchester City fans on Twitter urged their club to sign Aouar, with one fan claiming he would be an upgrade on Leroy Sane, who has been linked with a possible move to Bayern Munich (as per [Sport Bild](https://www.bild.de/bild-plus/sport/fussball/fussball/fc-bayern-muenchen-summe-hinterlegt-neue-verhandlungsbasis-bei-leroy-san-70462974.bild.html)). Another supporter declared that the Lyon midfielder would be the “perfect replacement for David Silva” as the Spaniard [prepares for his Etihad Stadium departure](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48767169) this summer.

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Scroll down through some of the comments from the Cityzens faithful below:

> Perfect replacement for David Silva
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> — Ju Sia (@JucaSiya) [May 11, 2020](https://twitter.com/JucaSiya/status/1259641122470735873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> Better than sane
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> — Sam.. (@Elton\_sam09) [May 11, 2020](https://twitter.com/Elton_sam09/status/1259735352224485378?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> [@ManCity](https://twitter.com/ManCity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) get it done
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> — (@WhimsicalWalker) [May 10, 2020](https://twitter.com/WhimsicalWalker/status/1259565147309383680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> If we sign him for 50m and quickly it will be as good as business as it was when we signed Bernardo
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> — City (@ericssson75) [May 10, 2020](https://twitter.com/ericssson75/status/1259569939247226880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> Come to city lad
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> — Tony Azameti (@AzametiTony) [May 10, 2020](https://twitter.com/AzametiTony/status/1259565863381995521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> On my knees [@ManCity](https://x.com/ManCity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) !!🙏🙏 [https://t.co/dlSOLaMw3K](https://t.co/dlSOLaMw3K)
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> — Sohail 🇵🇸 (@Sohail29mcfc) [May 10, 2020](https://x.com/Sohail29mcfc/status/1259591477165883392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> Only 21 aswell, brilliant future ahead hopefully with us.
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> — Odds For Betting (@Oddsforbetting) [May 10, 2020](https://twitter.com/Oddsforbetting/status/1259570900074201089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

***Man City fans, do you think the club should make the move for Aouar now that Lyon look set to sell him? Comment below with your views!***