Nolito is desperate to leave Manchester City after just 12 months at the club and is even willing to go out on loan in order to find regular first-team football.
The 30-year-old was one of Pep Guardiola’s first signings as City head coach last summer but his involvement steadily diminished over the course of the campaign and he practically disappeared following the turn of the year.
Nolito will find game time even harder to come by next season following the arrival of Bernardo Silva and the Spain international has grown so disillusioned at the Etihad that he is desperate to leave and return to Spain at any cost.
“I’d like to leave Manchester City… on loan, a transfer, whichever way possible,” Noltio told MARCA. “I’m calm about my future, and though I’m on vacation, my intention is to go back to Spain. I know Atletico and Celta are interested.
“Up until December I was playing and was happy, but after those four months I’ve hardly played. I don’t know what happened, you’ll have to ask him [Guardiola]. It has been a year to forget, an experience that hasn’t turned out as I’d planned, but hopefully this summer we’ll find a solution.”
Nolito also failed to make the grade under Guardiola at Barcelona before he secured a move to Celta in 2013 where he enjoyed the best football of his career.
His season with City is even more bewildering when you consider that Guardiola’s side won all nine of the Premier League matches he started, compared to a win ratio of 48.3% from the remaining league games he was not selected from the start.
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