Kyle Walker has left City on loan to Ac Milan with a buy clause. Now they have a serious problem in their fullback positions, PSG had a lot of joy down the wings when they beat City in the CL couple of days ago. Nunes is not a defender, he is not even a good footballer in any position and Rico is a terrible footballer.
What is Pep going to do tomorrow, they made three signings, of which two are defenders, but none of them is a fullback. Chelsea have very dangers attacking wingers, i would love to see what Pep would do tomorrow, but City urgently need fullbacks.
Ac Milan had the choice of signing just one more foreigner to their squad and they simply went for Walker this shows their desperation for a right back at the moment. Walker might be past his prime but he is still dependable on many occasions and him on the right side and Theo Hernandez on the left will be terrific.
As for Manchester city I think they can do just without him even without a recognized right back, i have watched cup games a lot where pep had tried the young lad Rico Lewis at the right hand side and I think we shouldn’t be surprised when we see him starting there because he already has first team football a lot this season or rather he goes for a 3-4-3 formation and uses three center backs with Ake or Akanji or Gvardiol on the sides
Chelsea might be better at beating other premier league clubs for signing players as they have the money to throw at players but they couldn't defeat Barcelona some years back when both clubs were going for the same players. I think Barcelona took two players which were Raphinha and Jules Kounde therefore if a club has a the right representatives that can sell the vision of the club to the players, they would choose the club over Chelsea since Chelsea don't have much things to offer recently as they're passing through a rebuilding stage that might take them sometime to recover. Garnacho is a very unpredictable situation as he might end up in another club.
All this are just what people say. Even if a club matches other clubs with the transfer fee their players preference and this depends on where he sees himself with the club in the future. Many will tell you that Real Madrid attracts everyone is it because of the money? No but the pedigree of the club and what the player can achieve their and still getting paid same as if he choose the other. Kounde and Raphinha choose Barca then because they saw better opportunities there same way Caicedo, Lavia and even Mudryk choose Chelsea over others then