'one Of The Best Upcoming Midfielders' - Man City Complete Nypan Deal

Manchester City person completed nan signing of 18-year-old midfielder Sverre Nypan from Rosenborg for £12.5m connected a five-year woody - and fans person each logic to beryllium excited astir nan imaginable latest addition.

Teenager Nypan has represented his state astatine younker levels up to and including under-21s, and it is expected he will spell connected a season-long indebtedness for nan 2025-26 campaign.

It is understood that, if a indebtedness is not arranged earlier nan players return for pre-season connected 28 July, he will train pinch Pep Guardiola's first team.

"It's a dream for immoderate young footballer to go portion of this nine and to subordinate specified a group of world people talent," said Nypan.

"I americium still very young pinch a batch to study but nan chance to beryllium coached by Pep Guardiola, nan champion head successful nan world, will only thief maine to go a amended player."

The acquisition of nan highly rated Nypan is simply a motion of City looking to nan future.

"Sverre Nypan has been regarded arsenic 1 of nan champion talents successful Norway and been playing astatine a very precocious level contempt being truthful young," said Norwegian journalist Andreas Korssund., external

"He's been looked astatine arsenic nan adjacent large point from nan Norwegian league, truthful it's not a astonishment he's securing specified a large move. The astonishment possibly is he's coming to City astatine specified a young age.

"If you look astatine nan different Norwegian apical talents specified arsenic Erling Haaland [who went to Red Bull Salzburg and later Borussia Dortmund] and Antonio Nusa [who went to Club Brugge and past RB Leipzig], they went down nan different route, going to a nine for guaranteed shot earlier looking elsewhere to nan Premier League aliases La Liga."

Followers of Norwegian shot person witnessed a accelerated emergence for Nypan, who made his first-team debut astatine Rosenborg aged 15.

He has made a large belief successful Norway complete nan past 2 seasons, winning nan top-tier Eliteserien Young Player of nan Year grant successful some 2023 and 2024.

He has mostly been utilized arsenic a cardinal midfielder but tin run arsenic an attacking midfield, winger aliases successful a centre-forward role, too, and is comfortable utilizing either foot, is quick, a bully dribbler and capable to return connected and hit a defender.

In 70 appearances for Rosenborg, he has scored 14 goals and contributed 11 assists.

With him playing successful nan aforesaid position and being from nan aforesaid country, location person been inevitable comparisons pinch Arsenal and Norway midfielder Martin Odegaard, who besides made his debut successful nan Norwegian apical formation aged 15.

"Both are technically skilled and person bully passing abilities," said Korssund. "Odegaard mightiness beryllium much of a dribbler, while Nypan is much personification who controls nan crippled from midfield.

"He is simply a spot much box-to-box than Odegaard. In my sentiment he's decidedly going to go 1 of Europe's perfectly champion midfielders."

Nypan played 28 of 30 convention matches past year, scoring 8 goals to go nan club's associated 2nd highest scorer of nan campaign, pinch his first elder hat-trick coming past August during Rosenborg's 4-0 location triumph complete Lillestrom.

Those goals helped Rosenborg decorativeness 4th and unafraid a spot successful Conference League qualifying, aft they had missed retired connected European shot past twelvemonth erstwhile finishing eighth successful 2023.

Nypan made his debut successful a 4-2 distant triumph complete Jerv connected 6 November 2022, six weeks earlier his 16th day successful 1 of 2 appearances successful that season.

The pursuing twelvemonth was his breakthrough campaign.

In 2023, he made 17 convention starts, positive six substitute appearances, and besides featured successful 3 matches successful Conference League qualifying.

He played successful nan 3-2 triumph complete Northern Irish broadside Crusaders and past impressed during some legs of nan 3rd qualifying information necktie pinch Hearts.

Nypan, past only 16, group up a extremity successful Rosenborg's 2-1 first-leg win, but nan Norwegians mislaid 3-1 astatine Tynecastle arsenic nan Scottish broadside scraped done 4-3 connected aggregate acknowledgment to a last-minute victor from Cameron Devlin.

After that first leg, past Hearts caput coach Frankie McAvoy felt Nypan had everything needed to scope nan top, saying: "We knew he was a typical subordinate and he showed that.

"He besides appears to person a bully caput connected his shoulders and erstwhile you tin do what he does successful nan last 3rd by creating scoring chances past you person a large opportunity to beryllium successful.

"He has a monolithic early up of him."

It was not agelong aft his emergence earlier Nypan was catching nan oculus of Europe's large clubs.

Norway's TV2 reported successful August 2023 that scouts from Manchester United had watched Nypan, but Rosenborg leader Alfred Johansson praised nan youngster's attitude, stating: "He focuses connected enjoying shot and training each day.

"It's very impressive, and that's really it should be, but not everyone would person been capable to do it. That is beardown of Sverre."

Arsenal were willing successful nan teen successful January 2025 and again this summer, pinch Aston Villa different 1 of nan sides heavy linked pinch him, earlier Guardiola's City had a bid accepted.

The woody is simply a grounds waste for Rosenborg, beating nan £8.5m they received erstwhile striker John Carew went to Valencia successful 2001.

Nypan becomes nan 3rd Norwegian subordinate astatine Etihad Stadium, joining up pinch prima striker Erling Haaland, 24, and attacking midfielder Oscar Bobb, 21.

Korssund felt it would return Nypan a while to settee successful astatine City, but he predicted he could get to nan very top.

"It's a large measurement for him to spell to nan Premier League, truthful he'll request clip to set earlier becoming a starter," said Korssund. "But I person nary uncertainty City person secured 1 of nan champion upcoming midfielders successful nan world.

"He's that benignant of subordinate we consciousness is going places. How group talk astir him is akin to really Nusa, Odegaard and Haaland person been spoken about, some successful nan media and by nan fans."