Get the biggest City transfer window stories, analysis and updates delivered straight to your inbox Oleksandr Zinchenko has explained he endured the 'most difficult' days of his career after Manchester City's Champions League defeat.
While it was reported that Zinchenko could have been sold ahead of the Blues' 2020/21 Premier League winning campaign, the versatile 24-year-old instead tenaciously forced himself back into Pep Guardiola 's plans.
Zinchenko has excelled at City this term and he was seemingly at the top of the pecking order at left-back towards the end of the season, with Guardiola trusting him in that role in the second leg of the semi-final and the final of the Champions League.
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