It says a lot about the challenges to Manchester City this season that over 100 of the most serious charges from the Premier League did not feel like the biggest hurdle they had to clear.
Pep Guardiola's efforts in December and January to get his squad back into shape after the winter World Cup became more and more exasperated, and reached an unexpected boiling point with Joao Cancelo. Relations between the pair reached such a low that the player - frustrated at being left out of the team one too many times - got into a heated argument with his manager during City's preparations on a matchday and then went back for another pop.
City's manager, as ever, ultimately won; Cancelo was dramatically and drastically shipped to Champions League rival Bayern Munich for the second half of the season, to the surprise of just about everybody in the league. As Premier League leaders Arsenal had strengthened their squad in the January window, City looked to have weakened theirs in an extreme risk to save and recover the harmony in his squad.
