Get the biggest City stories, analysis and transfer updates delivered straight to your inbox The evidence that Manchester City have made Harry Kane their transfer priority for this summer has been building for weeks.
But the Blues have become masters of hiding their hand in transfer shenanigans - as they showed last summer when the world was watching their apparent courtship of Napoli defender Kalidou Koulibaly - and they snapped up Ruben Dias, who had been cited as simply a fall-back option.
That was not the case. Dias was always a prime target, but City were happy to let everyone believe they had Koulibaly as number one.
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