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Man City to make Mangala final summer addition

Manchester City chief Ferran Soriano insists they will make one more signing this summer.

Soriano has revealed that the £32million deal to sign FC Porto defender Eliaquim Mangala will signal the end of their summer spending.

The 23-year-old Frenchman has already passed a medical and agreed personal terms, and his signing will take the club's outlay on new players this summer to a relatively modest £50million following the purchase of his former Porto teammate Fernando, Arsenal defender Bacary Sagna and Malaga goalkeeper Willy Caballero.

"We don't plan season by season, we plan in cycles," he said. "We knew one year ago the positions we wanted to reinforce in the team and we did it.

'We have a new right-back, a new holding midfielder and we will have a new central defender and that's it. We don't need to sign new players for the sake of it.

"We need to sign the players that the team needs because the team has a balance. To win you need to keep the balance. Our squad is very strong and it's the second year they play coached by Manuel Pellegrini so they'll do much better."

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