Man City face a bigger rebuild than Man Utd with Pep Guardiola needing half a dozen top players in transfer window

PEP GUARDIOLA always insisted this season would be an almighty challenge — but he never expected the proof to be so painful.

After four titles in a row with a Manchester City side that many people — myself included — were calling the best in the world only a couple of years earlier, he wasn’t the only one.

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Nobody doubted the need for a total rebuild in Manchester, although you might well have been talking about Ruben Amorim’s boys, too.