January transfer windows are typically non-events for the modern Manchester City.
Aymeric Laporte has been the only significant mid-season signing of the Pep Guardiola era, while the prolonged too-ing and fro-ing over eventual Manchester United flop Alexis Sanchez in that same 2018 window was the last time the Blues were involved in anything resembling a saga.
There was a touch more winter movement before Guardiola arrived five-and-a-half years ago and in January 2014 — a whole 12 months before the club secured the coup of Wilfried Bony’s services — came one of the most significant transfers in City history.
