Revealed: What Manchester City are thinking of Tijjani Reijnders inside the club | OneFootball

An inside look into the early impression left by Tijjani Reijnders on club staff has surfaced in a new report on Manchester City’s new midfield recruit.

The Netherlands international became one of four new signings completed by director of football, Hugo Viana prior to the start of the FIFA Club World Cup as a new iteration of Pep Guardiola’s squad was formed.

Alongside the now-former AC Milan midfielder in joining the Etihad Stadium operation was Olympique Lyonnais’ Rayan Cherki and Wolverhampton Wanderers’ Rayan Ait-Nouri, while Marcus Bettinelli arrived from Chelsea as a new third-choice goalkeeper.

While much of the attention this week will be on how City’s newest arrivals will fair in their respective debuts for the club, with the Club World Cup schedule due to get underway for Pep Guardiola’s side, insight into their early impression off the pitch has emerged.

There has been a running theme in recent years regarding the importance of Manchester City signing players following an assessment made on their personal lives, and that would appear to align with the early words said about Tijjani Reijnders.

As revealed by The Times’ Paul Hirst, the 26-year-old has made a good impression since arriving at City, greeting support-staff members by their first names whenever he sees them at the club’s training base in the United States.

It is also revealed that staff members at Manchester City have spoken of last season’s Serie A Midfielder of the Year’s down-to-earth nature.

That personable and polite reaction to Reijnders will only work in the player’s favour as he continues to embed himself into the group, and it has recently been revealed that he and other recent arrivals sang an initiation song to the wider first-team set-up on Monday night.

For the former Serie A star, that was Drake’s One Dance, while the likes of Abdukodir Khusanov, Rayan Cherki, Omar Marmoush, Savinho, and Claudio Echeverri offered performances of songs in their native languages.

Manchester City travel to Philadelphia this week to take on Moroccan giants Wydad AC on matchday one of their group stage, before contests against the United Arab Emirates’ Al Ain, and Italy’s Juventus.