There’s some competition, but Pablo Mari is one of the strangest Manchester City signings in recent years.
Moving from Gimnastic in Spain’s Segunda Division, he was immediately loaned to FC Girona for a season.
That didn’t go entirely to plan and with the hope of more minutes elsewhere, Mari spent the next season at NAC Breda. There he got more games as a regular, but last summer he was set for somewhere else.
Deportivo La Coruna signed him on loan with an option to make the move permanent. Transfermarkt lists his contract as ending in June 2019, other sources have the end date as unknown.
The player himself suggests it goes beyond the end of this season, explaining he wants a permanent transfer sorting out.
Deportivo are currently second and looking well placed for a return to the big time, that would help Mari, now 25 years of age, get the stability he’s clearly looking for.