Man City 'destroyer' facing Manchester United uncertainty after transfer saga

There are many reasons why it would be fitting for Ederson to notch his 350th appearance for Manchester City on Sunday in the Manchester derby.

It remains City's biggest game of the season against their biggest and closest rivals and would also see him come up against Andre Onana in a repeat of the 2023 Champions League final that proved defining in the careers of both men. The derby was also the first game for Claudio Bravo - Pep Guardiola's first choice to replace Joe Hart that went so badly wrong.

On paper Bravo looked ideal as an experienced Barcelona shotstopper that could instantly grasp the football the new City manager wanted in 2016, but a wild debut against United set the tone for one of the more disastrous signings of the Txiki Begiristain era. There was real pressure then in 2017, having taken the big decision to ditch Hart and then the equally sizable one to dispense with Bravo in less than 12 months.

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Making an uncapped Brazilian from the Portuguese league the most expensive goalkeeper since Gianluigi Buffon certainly raised eyebrows. Ederson does not believe in pressure though, and has been so good for so long that the question of City's No.1 has been moot from the moment he walked through the door in 2017 until now.

City went from one of the worst signings of the Begiristain era to one of the best, with Guardiola having been struck with the keeper back in 2016 when he took his Bayern side to Benfica in the Champions League. Ederson had left Benfica's youth system after not making the grade, but fought his way back up into their thoughts and left staff in