Get the biggest City stories, analysis and transfer updates delivered straight to your inbox Three months into an eight-month campaign and things had rarely looked more precarious for Pep Guardiola's Manchester City.
Any hopes that his decision to extend his stay at the Etihad until 2023 would spark the team into life had been scuppered by a run of two wins from five games that left them with just 19 points from 11 Premier League games - an awful return last recorded by the club in 2008 when Mark Hughes was manager and the takeover had only just occurred.
More worrying for the manager were the noises coming from the players. His decisions were starting to be questioned loud enough to be heard beyond the dressing room, with the lack of
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