THE Erling Haaland (£7.4m) situation is becoming increasingly difficult for Dream Team managers to ignore. Many gaffers hoped Manchester City’s No9 would end his mini drought with a goal

At one stage results around Europe put City fourth in the league phase table, but by the end of it they just sneaked through to the last 16 and avoided a play-off tie, finishing eighth thanks to Benfica beating Real Madrid and sending the 15-times winners into ninth in the standings.

A shining star in the center of the opposition penalty area, 10 orbiting bodies who must make sacrifices to satiate the deity. And the signs were that this was really working. Haaland was as good as he has ever been, an elemental force of scoring, the sheer weight of his gravity dragging Arsenal back into a title race.

Pep Guardiola admitted the Cityzens are “fragile” after a second consecutive bruising defeat.

GOAL monster Erling Haaland had meatballs at a tiny cafe — sparking a stampede which saw them selling 30kg a day. The Manchester City star, 25, wandered in to the eatery in his native Norway out

Omar Marmoush has reportedly become a target for Tottenham Hotspur in the January transfer window. The Manchester City forward has been linked with a switch to Spurs, though the club has just days remaining to complete a potential deal before the deadline.

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has provided an update on his side’s fitness ahead of Wednesday night’s monumental UEFA Champions League clash with Galatasaray.City slipped to 11th in the

THE Champions League reached a dramatic crescendo when 18 simultaneous fixtures settled the final standings of the league phase. Let’s rattle through all the key Dream Team talking points