Pep Guardiola backs Leroy Sané to provide Manchester City’s cutting edge | Paul Wilson


The exciting Germany winger has delighted Guardiola during his debut season with City and is seen as part of the solution to the side’s wastefulness

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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