Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has reportedly been granted a £100m January transfer budget.
City have been relatively frugal this summer with Erling Haaland, Sergio Gomez, Julian Alvarez, Stefan Ortega and Kalvin Phillips coming in. The costs of these players have been balanced out by the departures of the likes of Gabriel Jesus, Raheem Sterling and Oleksandr Zinchenko.
However, this season is unlike any other that has come before it with the World Cup in Qatar set to split the campaign in two from November. As always with a tournament of this magnitude, little known players can rise to prominence with solid performances for their national team.
