
Manchester City have been rocked by claims that Pep Guardiola could be about to end his nine-year association with the club.
The Premier League champions were emphatically eliminated from Europe by Real Madrid last night, thanks to a Kylian Mbappe hat-trick in the Bernabeu. The result leaves Guardiola's team fighting on just one front now – the FA Cup – with a 17-point deficit surely too much even for Manchester City to overhaul Liverpool at the top of the Premier League.