I swore I'd never play for another Premier League club - and then I joined Man City

The 2014/15 season is not one that many - if any - Manchester City fans will hold fond memories of.

After a superb first campaign with Manuel Pellegrini at the helm saw City win their second Premier League title, the Chilean coach was unable to repeat the feat as his side finished second, eight points adrift of champions Chelsea. City were patchy, good in spells but abysmal in others.

Sergio Aguero won the Golden Boot for the 26 league goals he scored - his highest single-season tally for the club - but too many members of the squad were ageing and City's ponderous and cross-orientated approach became stale and predictable. A slew of poor signings didn't help matters; Eliaquim Mangala, Fernando and Wilfried Bony failed to settle. However, it was City's most unexpected signing who provided one of the few highlights of an otherwise wasted year.

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Nobody foresaw Frank Lampard joining City, largely because he had effectively ruled out such a move. When it became clear that his 13-year spell at Chelsea would come to an end after the conclusion of the 2013/14 season, he insisted that he could not see himself playing for another Premier League side.

His unveiling as a New York City FC player in July 2014 supported that sentiment, but a month later he had swapped the City Football Group start-up for the original City in Manchester.

Conflicting statements from both City and NYCFC misled supporters about Lampard's status: after the midfielder supposedly signed a two-year deal with the American side, it was announced he would spend six months on loan at City ahead of the spring