City to pay Juventus £27m plus Danilo for right-back Cancelo

Manchester City are on the verge of signing Joao Cancelo, the Portugal right-back, from Juventus, with Danilo heading in the opposite direction. However, the future of Leroy Sane remains uncertain.

City are expected to pay Juventus around €30 million (£27.6 million) plus Danilo for Cancelo, who will provide added competition at rightback for Kyle Walker.

Cancelo was believed to be at the Lowry hotel in Salford last night ahead of finalising personal terms and a planned medical, with City hoping to confirm the deal in the next 48 hours.

The 25-year-old will be City’s third summer signing after clubrecord buy Rodri, a £62.8million capture from Atletico Madrid, and Angelino, for whom the Premier League champions have triggered a £5.35million buy-back option.

Brazil right-back Danilo wants more regular first-team football than Pep Guardiola has been able to grant. City had offered him in part exchange for Cancelo earlier in the summer but Juventus favoured a straight cash deal then.

It remains to be seen if Sane will follow Danilo out of the Etihad Stadium. The Germany winger’s future Almost there: Joao Cancelo will join City if he passes a medical and agrees terms remains unclear, with Bayern Munich determined to force through a deal, despite City’s £137million valuation, though both parties are waiting to discover the extent of a knee injury that forced the player’s substitution after 13 minutes of Sunday’s Community Shield against Liverpool. A serious problem could scupper a potential transfer.

Bayern smashed their transfer record to sign France defender Lucas Hernandez from Atletico for €80 million (£73 million) but they would have to pay almost double that to land Sane.

Guardiola said Sane was close to signing a new contract with City only two or three weeks ago before an about-turn, opening the door to Bayern, who believe the player wants to return to Germany to play for them.

It will still require Bayern to make the 23-year-old one of the most expensive players in football history, three years after his £37 million move to City from Schalke. Sane was injured in a collision with a Liverpool defender at Wembley, and is being closely assessed.

His City and Germany teammate, Ilkay Gundogan, is set to stay at the club by signing a new longterm contract.