It was not the first time in the last year that a Manchester City match resulted in Marc Guehi celebrating. How could it be, when a May date with his new employers ended with him lifting the FA Cup? Eight months after Eberechi Eze’s Wembley winner, Guehi was rather keener on a City clean sheet. After he and Nico O’Reilly flew in to block Yerson Mosquera’s injury-time shot they, and Gianluigi Donnarumma, were bound together in a hug. “We need that [spirit],” he said.
Guehi had only been a City player for five days but it was early evidence of commitment to the cause. And yet that, perhaps, was the guarantee, even for a man whose loyalties could have been transferred to one of City’s major rivals. It has been an eventful couple of weeks for a £20m signing, from his final Crystal Palace appearance coming in arguably the greatest ever FA Cup shock, of defeat to Macclesfield, to being withdrawn from their squad in a manner that threatened to end Oliver Glasner’s reign to joining City to debuting against Wolves.
