Five players are fighting for their Man City futures next season

A lot of Manchester City's players have nothing left to prove, and have a job for life as long as they want it.

Bernardo Silva, Erling Haaland, Kevin De Bruyne, Rodri, Jack Grealish, Ederson, Ruben Dias, John Stones and several others. Last season City achieve the remarkable, to become just the second English team to win the treble and equal fierce rivals Manchester United's crowning glory.

While those names will go down in the history books, tales of the brilliance passed from generation to generation, there are others in the City squad who didn't play as much of a significant role. Every member of a squad is crucial for more than what we see on the pitch, to ensure squad harmony and team spirit.

But everyone wants to play. Every single game. Some did not do enough to earn a regular spot in the side last season and will be fighting for their futures during pre-season and the forthcoming campaign.

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The biggest example of course is Kalvin Phillips. The midfielder was brought in from Leeds United last summer to replace the departing Fernandinho to provide cover for Rodri but hardly got a sniff of action. A should injury disrupted the first half of his season and Pep Guardiola expressed his frustrations early on that he was having to play Rodri so much.

The time off meant Phillips was already playing catch-up at a club where it tends to take players a year to get used to the manager's methods. Even when back on the bench, Guardiola did not trust him enough to play much. His longest cameo off the bench in the Premier League against Leicester City was disastrous and threatened to throw away the lead.

The midfielder didn't start his