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Alberto Costa to Manchester City

Q: How likely is Alberto Costa to join Manchester City?

Transfer Tracker rates Alberto Costa to Manchester City at 0%, a longshot on the current reporting from 1 reporter.

Porto

Manchester City

Defender · 23y · Portugal · contract until 2030

Chance it happens in January

No trusted reporter yet. Stories like this complete 6 in 100 times.

Carried by fussball-news via CaughtOffside (aggregator).

Fee: Not reported
Value: €36m
Reporters: 1

Where he ends up in the January windowEvery outcome by the January deadline, adding up to 100%. A move in a later window is not counted. Open a club for its rumour.

Man CityThis rumour
Man UnitedRumour page
PSGRumour page
ArsenalRumour page
Other clubNot yet named
Stays at PortoNo move

What the number is based on

ReportingNo trusted reporterOne aggregator reportAgainst the move
ContractRuns to June 20303 years 8 months leftAgainst the move
Manchester CityPlenty of room to spendMoves from Liga Portugal to Premier League are commonFor the move
FeeNot reportedValue €36m

The story so far

1 report · newest first

Tuesday
Ffussball-newsTrust 50Earliest mentionEarliest mentionvia CaughtOffsideFull post
“Arsenal and Man United weigh up move for €65m-rated wide man ahead of January window. Arsenal and Manchester United are reportedly interested in signing FC Porto right-back Alberto Costa, with Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain also monitoring his progress ahead of the…”

Chance it happens in January

Long shot

Value: €36m

AuthorTransfer Tracker AnalystLast updated5 Nov 2026StatusUp to date

Alberto Costa to Man City: talk, not an actual move yet

The situation

Alberto Costa remains talk rather than substance for Manchester City. The Porto right back, 23, is named alongside Arsenal and Manchester United as a January target, with Paris Saint Germain also said to be monitoring him, but nothing suggests City have made an approach or that Porto are willing to sell. The framing of the report itself, pitching Arsenal and United as the pair actively weighing a move, leaves City's interest looking more like background noise than a live chase.

The reporting

The only source for any of this is fussball-news, whose report was carried by CaughtOffside by 27 October. No trusted reporter has backed it, and nobody else has matched it independently, so this sits as one outlet's claim repeated by another rather than two separate lines of reporting.

The outlook

The chance of City actually landing him before the January window shuts is slim. He only joined Porto in July 2025 and has 42 months left on his contract once that window opens, which gives Porto zero pressure to sell cheaply, if at all. For this to move, City would need to make a concrete offer, and Porto would need to decide a sale suits them, neither of which any report claims is happening.

What happens next

Nothing changes here until a concrete bid is reported or a trusted outlet picks the story up. Until then, this is speculation sitting well short of an actual move.

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