Aside from working closely with Erling Haaland and Riyad Mahrez, the extent to which Pep Guardiola can make any detailed tactical progress this week must be limited.
After a three week break, Manchester City are ramping up preparations for the resumption of the domestic fixture list later this month, taking a 19-man squad to Abu Dhabi for a week of warm-weather training.
However, with most of the first team squad involved in the World Cup, the City squad is mostly made up of youngsters from the Elite Development Squad. And while that restricts what Guardiola can work on when it comes to first team tactics, he has a unique chance to put his best academy players through their paces by giving them his full focus.
