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Manchester City have agreed a deal with Lille worth €95m (£81.4m) plus €5m in potential add-ons for Ayyoub Bouaddi, with the Morocco midfielder’s arrival to take the club’s summer spend to nearly £200m after Elliot Anderson’s £116m signing earlier in the window.

The 18-year-old was stood down from Lille’s Ligue 1 match against Angers on Sunday before a medical with City and his transfer becoming official in the next few days.

Bouaddi, who operates mainly as a No 6, started five of Morocco’s six games at the World Cup tournament this summer, including the 2-0 quarter-final defeat by France. That was only his eighth international appearance, with his debut coming for Lille at a Conference League group game in October 2023; at 16 years and three days, this made him the youngest footballer to play in the competition.

The majority of the fee for Bouaddi will come from the £65m sale of Rodri to Barcelona, which occurred last week.

Anderson, who is making his debut in City’s Premier League opener against Bournemouth on Sunday, can play as No 6 or No 8, so Bouaddi may not go directly into Enzo Maresca’s starting XI.

City remain interested in Chelsea’s Enzo Fernández, also a midfielder. The west London club want £120m for the Argentinian but City are thought to value him as less.