The Bundesliga leader has denied wanting to sign anyone this month, but Goal understands the club has been tracking the Germany international who is impressing in Spain
Weeks after Manchester City splurged on Valencia’s Nicolas Otamendi in August, there were tongue in cheek comments emanating from Mestalla that the Premier League club had signed the wrong center back. Perhaps, they quipped, City should have signed Shkodran Mustafi instead.
Mustafi struck up an impressive partnership with Otamendi last year and the German defender picked up where he left off at the start of the new campaign.