The €100m signing Manchester City wanted before switching focus to Ayyoub Bouaddi

“If he’d said yes, he’d have been a Manchester City player by now, so you can see just how concrete it was. In the end, he decided for Bayern Munich.”

City fans will surely be pleased with the calibre of player signed by the club to help replace Rodri this summer, but the Pavlovic links are certainly interesting too, and one imagines he might be an option they look at again in the future if any of this current crop don’t live up to expectations.