Man City boss Pep Guardiola hinted at Joao Cancelo transfer stance amid Bayern Munich decision

Pep Guardiola has shown he will not stand in the way if a member of his squad wishes to exit Manchester City.

Usually, it’s on good terms. Raheem Sterling, Sergio Aguero and Ilkay Gundogan can all be filed under that category. Bernardo Silva and Aymeric Laporte may soon join the club.

Joao Cancelo may leave the Etihad this summer too, albeit perhaps there will not be so many glad-handed farewell pats on the back. The full-back crossed the English channel through to Germany under a black cloud in January.

It soon came out that there had been a rift between Guardiola and his left-back, which is perhaps mildly put. Cancelo - who was named in the World XI for 2022 shortly after his switch to Bayern Munich - was aggrieved about his playing time.

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The Portugal star was concerned after Nathan Ake had edged ahead of him in the left-back pecking order after the World Cup, despite playing the most minutes out of any City defender up to that point.

The details of how the sudden switch to Bayern arose are hazy, but it seems as though the departure was bordering on acrimonious. But just months after bending in a superb cross with the outside of his boot for Erling Haaland’s acrobatic winner against Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League, Cancelo was coming on to face City in the same competition.

He was greeted by boos from some sections of the home crowd as his parent club ran riot against the German giants in the quarter-final first leg. Cancelo didn’t have the smoothest of short stays at the Allianz Arena either.

Just nine matches into his stay, Julian Nagelsmann - who brought him into the club - was replaced by Thomas Tuchel. Cancelo found out