Kevin De Bruyne is Manchester City’s greatest ever player. Erling Haaland will hoover up the club’s goalscoring records; or those he does not already possess, anyway. Bernardo Silva made the most appearances of anyone for City in the last four decades, the most under Pep Guardiola and felt the manager’s favourite.
And yet perhaps the Barcelona-bound Rodri was the definitive player of Guardiola’s time at the Etihad Stadium. It helped, of course, that he scored the most momentous goal, the one that finally made City champions of Europe. Rodri against Inter in Istanbul: few supporters will ever need an explanation of that.
