By Martyn Herman
Manchester City easily topped the spending charts in the January transfer window with the signing of Spanish midfielder Nico Gonzalez on Deadline Day to complete a busy month for the ailing Premier League champions.
City have endured a testing time on the pitch and sit fifth in the Premier League table with their hopes of a record-extending fifth successive domestic championship in tatters.
But the rebuild appears to have started in earnest with more than 180 million pounds ($223.58 million) spent by Pep Guardiola’s outfit — more than the combined amount paid by the other 19 English top-flight clubs in a relatively quiet window.
City’s spending was the second-biggest outlay ever worldwide by a club in the January transfer window behind Chelsea’s 274 million pounds in 2023, according to Transfermarkt.
City paid Porto 60 million euros ($62.06 million) for 23-year-old Gonzalez — their fourth major signing in
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