This article is more than 3 years old

This article is more than 3 years old

Manchester City have missed out on signing Holger Badstuber after Schalke concluded a loan deal for the Bayern Munich defender on Tuesday.

Pep Guardiola has been looking to strengthen his defensive contingent in the transfer window with concerns about the fitness of Vincent Kompany, who has an outside chance of returning for Sunday’s trip to Everton after seven weeks out with knee ligament damage.

Transfer window January 2017: every deal in Europe's top five leagues Read more

Kompany has featured only 29 times in the past two and a half seasons because of a series of problems and Guardiola may decide he cannot rely on the Belgian.

Schalke, however, were able to confirm that Badstuber has now joined them until the end of the season. The 27-year-old defender has also extended his contract with Bayern until 2018.

Christian Heidel, Schalke’s sporting director, told Sky Sports Germany on Tuesday: “Badstuber is, when it comes to bringing the ball out of defence, one of the best, but he has been injured for a long time. He won’t have a guaranteed place even though he wants to get back to being the player he was two years ago.”

Badstuber has suffered a series of problems over the past four years and has featured only three times this season for Bayern.