Your evening Manchester City headlines for Monday, July 18. Pep Guardiola pranks Jack Grealish and five other things spotted on first day of Man City's pre-season tour On Sunday Manchester City's players took to the training pitch for the first time on their pre-season tour of the United States.
The 26-man Blues squad is currently based at Houston Dynamo's training complex in Houston, ahead of a friendly against Mexican outfit Club America on Thursday.
City will then fly up to Wisconsin for a meeting with Bayern Munich at Green Bay's Lambeau Field on Saturday. City were put through their paces on day one, as temperatures in the southern US city hit the upper 30s.
The players still looked to be enjoying themselves though, with Pep Guardiola even pulling off a little prank of his own. Here's what we spotted on the first day. Read the full story here. Three Man City players who can take pre-season opportunity amid absent stars Manchester City will be without John Stones, Ilkay Gundogan and Phil Foden for their pre-season visit to the USA this month.