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Man City should break a four-year trend to grant Pep Guardiola's Fernandinho wish
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Yaya Toure. Vincent Kompany. David Silva. Sergio Aguero.
For the last four summers in succession, Manchester City have waved an emotional goodbye to a club legend, a player integral to them becoming the super club they are today. This year it could well be a fifth but, instead, everything possible should be done to buck the trend and keep Fernandinho at the Etihad.
The City stalwart is now into his ninth season in the Premier League and, just like it was last year when he signed a one-year extension, his contract is currently set to expire in the summer. City have done such a good job in recent years of knowing when it's time to say goodbye to defining players when other clubs would become attached and allow to deteriorate at the top level.
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Sentimentality can be costly in this and the club has never allowed it to rule its thought process when handing out new contracts.
There is a mixed record on replacing them, there's no doubt there. It took City a season, in which they surrendered the title to Liverpool before they brought in Ruben Dias, to replace Kompany. They failed to sign a new out-and-out striker to replace Aguero in the summer, too, with attempts to bring in Harry Kane proving fruitless.
Yet it's hard to argue that the decision to let those players go wasn't the right one. Each of them, while still immensely talented, were past their peaks and it was better to allow them to leave on tear-jerking highs rather than fizzling out. You'd rather leave with people thinking it's too soon than them ushering you out the door.
There would be a nice synergy to Fernandinho leaving this summer. Five years in a row in
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