There will be four new faces on Manchester City's pre-season tour, four new squad numbers, three key players from last season missing, and there will also have to be a new captain.
Erling Haaland, Julian Alvarez, Kalvin Phillips and Stefan Ortega will make their first appearances in a City shirt a week today when they face Club America in Houston, in a fixture that will give some indication of how Pep Guardiola plans to send out his side this season.
Pre-season is primarily for building fitness and testing out new ideas, so the system used in the US fixtures against Club America and Bayern Munich won't necessarily be the same one that will challenge for the Premier League title, but there will certainly be clues over the approach Guardiola is looking for.
