Valencia Showing Interest In Manchester City Defender Joao Cancelo

Valencia are reportedly coming after Manchester City's center-back Joao Cancelo and may make an offer for him in January transfer window.

To make their interest in the Portuguese, the Spaniard club owner Peter Lim has been in contact with the player's agent Jorge Mendes, in the race to secure a deal with him ahead of Bundesliga side Bayern Munich, who are also understood to be interested in the player.

City could be considered to be technically out of the Premier League title race as Pep Guardiola admitted that the possibilities of his team catching up on the table leader, Liverpool, may not be possible. Nevertheless, they trimmed down the gap to eleven points after beating Leicester City by 3-1 on Saturday.

Contrary to when he was in Juventus, Cancelo has not been getting enough appearances this season at the club in joined in summer in a six-year deal for £55 million.