REBUILD AS McATEE ENTERS FINAL YEAR OF CITY CONTRACT

However, this has been difficult to square given how rarely he has been used.

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Guardiola was candid earlier in the season when admitting that he had favoured more experienced players to get City out of the hole they were digging for themselves simply because he knew their characters more.

And it has felt like one of his more genuine moments when he conceded that one of his reflections on the season has been that he probably should have used McAtee and Nico O'Reilly earlier in the campaign.