Manchester City's summer spending continued with the £65 million signing of Senegal international Iliman Ndiaye from Everton, taking City's total summer outlay past £450 million. “I've worked my whole life for an opportunity like this,” Ndiaye said of the move. “To be able to write my own chapter in a story that special is the chance of a lifetime.”
Ndiaye gives City another attacking option in an already reshaped squad. For Everton, his departure carried far greater consequences — the club were simultaneously trying to rebuild their own attack after already losing key players, which made their failure to complete the incoming Folarin Balogun transfer even more damaging on the same deadline day.