Pep Guardiola expects each Ederson and Stefan Ortega to stay at Manchester Metropolis, whereas downplaying the membership’s curiosity in Espanyol’s Joan Garcia.
Ederson was linked with a transfer to the Saudi Professional League final yr however dedicated to staying at Metropolis via 2024-25 after conversations with Guardiola.
He made 37 appearances throughout all competitions final season, conserving 12 clear sheets, with 10 of these coming within the Premier League.
The Brazilian boasted a save proportion of 67.1% (54 saves from 79 pictures on course confronted) and conceded 26 targets.
Nonetheless, Ederson solely has 12 months remaining on his present contract, as does Stefan Ortega.
He made simply 13 league appearances, conserving three clear sheets, together with his save proportion sitting at 64.7%.
Regardless of their contracts coming in the direction of an finish, Guardiola seems to be pleased with the goalkeeping scenario at Metropolis.
“We’ve got spoken in regards to the scenario relating to squad planning, and the 2 goalkeepers we’ve will proceed,” Guardiola informed reporters at a golf occasion in Catalonia on Monday.
Metropolis have been linked with a brand new goalkeeper, together with Garcia, in addition to Porto’s Diogo Costa.
Garcia made essentially the most saves in LaLiga in 2024-25 (146), whereas solely Unai Simon (77.4%) and Jan Oblak (74.1%) had a greater save proportion amongst goalkeepers who performed greater than 20 video games than the 24-year-old (73.7%).
Guardiola disregarded any hyperlinks to Garcia, although he spoke extremely of his high quality.
“Joan Garcia is a very good goalkeeper, however Metropolis are linked with 500 gamers in each switch window,” Guardiola added.
“He’s an Espanyol participant and I don’t know what occur, however I’m informed by the Espanyol guys [playing in the golf event] he’s a rare goalkeeper. The references we’ve are superb.”
