John Stones admitted it will be hard to go into the new season without players that have left Manchester City but backed the recruitment team to continue to deliver success.
It has been a bigger summer of change than usual at the Etihad, with four significant additions to the first-team squad and five exits helping to give a fresh look to Pep Guardiola's squad. As well as Zack Steffen, City have lost Stones' England teammate Raheem Sterling, club captain Fernandinho and popular members of the dressing room Gabriel Jesus and Oleksandr Zinchenko.
City's dressing room has been a key part of their success, with the group backing each other and supporting each other through the good and bad moments over the course of a season. Guardiola employs a small squad to both provide ferocious competition for places and make sure everyone feels they are within touching distance of a starting place.
