straight to your inbox The cancellation of the pre-season tour has been problematic for a number of Manchester City youngsters.
With senior players often absent through international commitments, the summer schedule is the one time in the year when Pep Guardiola can get a proper look at some prospects at a standard far more testing than the unreliable Premier League 2.
City's tour of the Far East last summer may have been fairly calamitous from a first-team point of view, but it did promote Taylor Harwood-Bellis and Tommy Doyle into the first-team thinking.
No tour this summer means no opportunities for the likes of Jayden Braaf, Yan Couto and others to convince the manager they can have a part to play.
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