When Pep Guardiola appeared at the Nou Camp to announce Manchester City's friendly with Barcelona later this month, the Catalan media were more bothered about something else than the charity match. Bernardo Silva.
Guardiola remained diplomatic, even if Barca president Joan Laporta tried to press the issue himself, and since then talk of Bernardo moving to Barcelona has quietened. However, with the Catalans looking to offload Frenkie De Jong, and making some questionable moves in the transfer market for a club with financial issues, that speculation has returned.
So when Guardiola admitted he doesn't know if Bernardo will still be a City player after the transfer deadline on September 1, it foreshadowed a month of likely speculation from Spain over one of the Blues' most important players.
