Claudio
Bravo has
said he will fight for his place at Manchester City as the club draws close to signing
Benfica goalkeeper Ederson Moraes.
Ederson
is expected to follow Bernardo Silva as City’s second summer signing in a
deal believed to cost around £35m.
The Brazilian’s arrival at the
Etihad looks set to cast doubt on Bravo’s own future who joined from Barcelona
last summer.
After ousting Joe Hart as
City’s main goalkeeper, the Chilean struggled for form and was soon replaced by
Willy Caballero.
But Bravo is determined to
battle for his place at City and said he has been used to competition
throughout his career.
"My future is still linked
to City for a long time," he told AS ahead of Ederson’s move to the club.
"You always have
competition at this level. It happened to me at Colo Colo, in the national
team, at Real Sociedad, at Barcelona, at City -- all my life has been a
competition.
"I knew this was going to
be the scenario for a while, but this is not something that worries me.
Football is like this at the highest level and more so in these powerful clubs.
Wherever you look, you have a
selection of the best in the world."
Bravo also admitted that his
first season at City had not gone to plan but he remained defiant nonetheless.
"Sometimes it's like this
-- one season things don't go as planned," he added.
"I had two successful
seasons at the highest level, and I've just experienced one where we did not
achieve what we aimed for from a team standpoint, but one thing does not rule
out the other.
"I've always been
consistent and persevered on the aims that I set myself. It hasn't been the
year that I expected, but I hope the next one will be much better."
The Chilean dismissed
suggestions that he had struggled to cope with the physicality of the Premier
League after a decade playing in Spain.
"Many people think so,
that it was down to adapting but I don't think so," he said. "There
has been a tendency to link my name with that of the functioning of all the
team. I don't want to delve into this.
"The whole team
did not function as it should have during certain times of the season, but that
is in the past.
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