Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City press conferences have been a story within a story this season. As the club’s results, defence, disciplinary issues and off-field narratives have lurched and pitched all over the place, so have the manager’s moods. You know you are going to get a certain amount of nose-rubbing and ear-tugging each time, but what you are not guaranteed is a smile and a sunny response.
Not unless the subject is Leroy Sané, one of the few City positives that has stayed positive all season and a player whose potential is as much a source of delight to his manager as it clearly is to the club’s supporters.
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