Manchester City know the script by now. An iconic player has left every summer since Pep Guardiola, with Ilkay Gundogan the latest.
The tributes were written, the impressive montages were finished, and City's farewell to club captain Gundogan was as slick as the player himself.
Not every player has left on such a high, but all have been given appropriate tributes to reflect their contributions to City.
Joe Hart's exit in 2016 was a little acrimonious, but he has a pitch named after him at the City Football Academy. Pablo Zabaleta and Yaya Toure got hero's farewells on the pitch the following two years, and Vincent Kompany is immortalised in a statue outside the Etihad, along with David Silva and Sergio Aguero, after their successive departures between 2019 and 2021.