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By Sam Worthington with AP

Portugal prima Joao Cancelo is acceptable to permission Manchester City connected a $108m woody aft a reported grooming crushed bust-up with manager Pep Guardiola.

The fullback is believed to person travelled to Bayern Munich ahead of a apt indebtedness determination to the German champions, who would past person an enactment to bargain him for $108m.

Cancelo played an integral relation for Premier League champions City successful caller seasons but has rapidly fallen retired of favour with Guardiola since past year's FIFA World Cup successful Qatar.

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The 28-year-old has started lone 3 of City's 9 games since the World Cup with Nathan Ake, Kyle Walker and Rico Lewis mostly preferred.

The Daily Mail reported that Cancelo "reacted angrily" aft helium learned that helium would not beryllium successful the starting XI for City's FA Cup clash with Arsenal past weekend.

"Cancelo has been vocal successful caller weeks astatine a deficiency of crippled clip and has go disruptive to the squad portion his narration with Guardiola progressively deteriorated aft the World Cup," the British paper stated.

"The 28-year-old Portugal planetary threatened to permission the club, and specified was the severity of the situation, City gave Cancelo the greenish airy to depart erstwhile helium brought a indebtedness connection from Bayern to the array with the narration betwixt subordinate and manager beyond repair."

Neither City nor Bayern person commented officially connected immoderate woody for Cancelo.

The European transportation model closes connected Tuesday.

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