Julian Alvarez has just answered the big question on his Man City future

It's only a reasonable question if you haven't been paying attention.

The uninitiated and those who haven't been watching Manchester City week in and week out this season may take a glance at Julian Alvarez' name on the score sheet after another electric performance and ask: "How long will such a good player be willing to play second fiddle to Erling Haaland?"

"After all," they may well reason, "he's already a World Cup winner and is clearly so brilliant, surely he'll want to play more? He can't be happy sitting on the bench? Won't he want to be the main man to lead the line? The undisputed No.9?"

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All very reasonable and no doubt mostly correct, too. Alvarez, like any footballer, will want to play as often as possible and although he has played in the majority of City's matches this season with 42 appearances, he will definitely be wanting to make more than 18 starts.

However, if it wasn't already made clear by the fact he extended his contract by a further year back in March, Alvarez won't be going anywhere any time soon and has already answered those doubters loud and clear. The Argentine started at Craven Cottage on Sunday, ahead of Kevin De Bruyne no less, and put in yet another excellent display.

In fact, it was a match-winning one as he claimed the penalty for Haaland's opener and then curled in a delightful shot for the winning goal. The crucial contributions took his tallies for his debut season in Europe, let alone England, to 15 goals and five assists.

It also continued an interesting trend. Of those 15 goals, 13 of them have come when he has started matches. The only two games he's come off the bench to score in are against