Laporte - big, big loss

Cool, calm, collected - and now injured for the next 3 or 4 weeks.

That's a big loss for City and a headache for Guardiola.

Options? Stones + Otamendi but perhaps most likely is the creative use of Fernandinho.

Pep's solution will be interesting. September games - norwich, Shakhtar, Watford, Preston and Everton.