straight to your inboxThere were no deadline day surprises at Manchester City as the January transfer window passed with little activity around the first team.Pep Guardiola repeatedly insisted that City were happy to stick with their current squad, despite injury issues in the forward department.
However, City turned down the chance to re-sign former favourite Edin Dzeko, while a move for Diego Costa was never on the cards.
Likewise, David Alaba was not a target despite plenty of reports suggesting he was.There was also no movement with Eric Garcia, who is out of contract in the summer.
Barcelona want to sign the centre-back, but with their presidential elections in March it was decided that they would wait until the end of the season to.
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