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Jules Kounde reveals 2019 phone call with Pep Guardiola and admits he came close to joining Man City

Barcelona defender Jules Kounde revealed that he almost ended up at Manchester City, after a phone call from Pep Guardiola in 2019.

The French defender, who was heavily linked with a move to Chelsea before ultimately joining Barcelona for £46million this summer, admitted he could have ended up in City blue before deciding to stay at Sevilla for three more seasons.

Guardiola never ended up signing a first-team centre-back in the summer of 2019, instead promoting Eric Garcia - also now at Barcelona - to the senior squad in pursuit of cover for Aymeric Laporte, Vincent Kompany and John Stones.