City are among a number of Premier League clubs monitoring the teenage striker after his impressive start to the season
When you aspire to be the leading club in the world – on and off the field – that has to be regarded as a misstep of sorts given the budget and sales pitch at your disposal.
Not that it will appear that way for a while. Nunes is a fine technical player who will slot easily into Pep Guardiola’s winning machine this season. The head coach is so good, and his pursuit of excellence so relentless, that he will find a way to reshape things and win trophies with the players that he’s got.
But this was a window when City could, had they wanted to, have rolled their sleeves up and got involved in a bidding war for a potential game changer. Instead, they stepped away from the pursuit of two young England midfielders with the world at their feet having never really – according to at least one sourcePerhaps they were spoiled with the pleasing precision of their big 2022 move for Haaland, whose signing upgraded them from Premier League to European champions.
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