Gianluigi Donnarumma has welcomed having to compete with James Trafford to be Manchester City\u2019s No 1, the Italian goalkeeper saying \u201ctogether we can make success\u201d.<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old was signed from Paris Saint-Germain<\/a> for about \u00a330m (\u20ac35m) on transfer deadline day, the move causing some surprise after Trafford joined from Burnley on the last day of July for \u00a327m.<\/p>\n Trafford displaced Ederson, who left for Fenerbahce for \u00a314m last week, as Pep Guardiola\u2019s first choice but made a shaky start, being culpable for Jo\u00e3o Palhinha\u2019s goal in Tottenham\u2019s 2-0 win<\/a> at City in their second league game.<\/p>\n On competing for the goalkeeper jersey, Donnarumma said: \u201cI\u2019m happy because competition is good for everyone. I can\u2019t wait to meet [James], and I can\u2019t wait to meet my new teammates. We have to be a strong and united group with people who care for each other and that is the key to success. Together we can make great success.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to enjoy everything, I want to get to know the city and get to know new people and my new teammates. I\u2019m really looking forward to discovering the environment of the stadium and I can\u2019t wait to take to the pitch and hear the sounds of the stadium and hear the support.\u201d<\/p>\n The Italian trained for the first time with Guardiola\u2019s squad on Thursday. The manager has yet to decide whether to give him his debut in Sunday\u2019s visit of Manchester United for the 167th derby.<\/p>\n James Trafford has made a shaky start for Manchester City. Donnarumma said: \u201cPlaying in the Premier League with Manchester City is a great emotion for me and I\u2019m ready for this challenge. I\u2019ve always dreamed about playing in the Premier League, as it\u2019s the best league in the world.<\/p>\n skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n Sign up to Football Daily<\/p>\n Kick off your evenings with the Guardian’s take on the world of football<\/p>\n Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain information about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. If you do not have an account, we will create a guest account for you on theguardian.com<\/a> to send you this newsletter. You can complete full registration at any time. For more information about how we use your data see our Privacy Policy<\/a>. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy<\/a> and Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n \u201cFor a player, I think achieving in the Premier League is the maximum for his career, therefore I\u2019m really happy to be here. I\u2019m willing to take to the pitch for this club who has been trying so much to sign me and I hope I can pay that trust back.\u201d<\/p>\n Donnarumma was City\u2019s fifth major acquisition of the window, following the arrivals of Trafford, Tijjani Reijnders, Rayan Cherki, who is injured, and Rayan A\u00eft-Nouri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gianluigi Donnarumma has welcomed having to compete with James Trafford to be Manchester City\u2019s No 1, the Italian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-149861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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