Man City transfer news: Joe Hart eyes Sporting Lisbon move
Reports in Portugal suggest Sporting Lisbon are ready to rescue Hart, whose career has hit rock bottom since the end of the domestic campaign.
The Manchester City keeper has seen his stock plummet after a disastrous loan season at West Ham with the London club passing on the option to sign the 31-year-old permanently.
Jack Butland, Jason Pickford, Nick Pope and Tom Heaton have all jumped ahead of Hart in Southgate’s reckoning and his club situation is complicated further by the fact that Butland and Heaton could both be on the move this summer, reducing the City man’s options even further.
And while Wolves and Southampton, managed by former City boss Mark Hughes, were both linked with Hart in the days immediately after the end of the season, there has been no firm follow-up.