Manchester United are among several Premier League teams monitoring Southampton's Romeo Lavia and the midfielder is very much admired by their rivals at the Etihad.
Pep Guardiola has just one signing left from first Man City transfer window
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The arrival of Pep Guardiola in 2016 promised great things. Looking back seven years on, and it has delivered them.
A clip of Guardiola and Kevin De Bruyne - the only remaining Manchester City player from before Guardioa's arrival - after the Champions League final shows the pair crying, hugging, and saying: "We did it. Seven years of fighting, we did it. We did it Kev. Now we have it."
Ilkay Gundogan was there every step of the way with Guardiola, as the German was his first signing for £24m from Borussia Dortmund. A transfer fee that looks like one of the best value additions City have ever made.
Guardiola signed six first team players that summer, and with Gundogan leaving only John Stones remains from that first summer transfer window in 2016. A look at the other five show how Guardiola's transfer policy has evolved over the years.
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After Gundogan, who delivered 14 trophies for City, some single-handedly, City also signed John Stones, Leroy Sane, Claudio Bravo and Nolito. Aleks Zinchenko would sign for a bargain £1.7m before being sent out on loan to PSV, and wasn't considered a first team option at the time although he would go on to become a key member of the squad until last summer.
Bravo represented a desire for Guardiola to have his goalkeeper as an extra outfielder in possession, but the experiment wouldn't work and Bravo was responsible for a number of gaffes in his first season. Still, that would see City look again for a better-equipped goalkeeper for Guardiola's system, and Ederson was signed a year later.
Sane was more of a success, playing a key role in City's title wins of 2018 and 2019, but a
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