Man City have just one dilemma ahead of the January transfer window

It must be hard to not be completely smug all the time if you're Manchester City.

You look across the city and see your once-mighty neighbours brought down to heel. Chaos engulfing the once-fearsome Manchester United. The manager in peril and the January transfer window looked towards like a safe harbour on stormy seas.

United have been ravaged by injuries this season but even still, they go into the new year market needing reinforcements in at least three different positions and, at present, have little budget to sign them with due to FFP. City, meanwhile, are sitting pretty, knowing full well they have little to do in January.

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The Blues rarely conduct business in the cattle market that is the mid-season window, with selling clubs holding all the cards and prices going up accordingly. Maximo Perrone was signed earlier this year but that was hardly an earth-shattering signing.

Instead, you have to go back to the signing of Aymeric Laporte from Athletic in 2019 for the last time City brought in a significant addition to Pep Guardiola's first-team squad. That worked out pretty well but it didn't change the club's mind. January is a free-for-all they try to keep out of.

Thanks to their excellent planning and recruitment in the summer months, they more often than not are able to do so. But that doesn't mean there won't be business going the other way and City do have just one dilemma ahead of the new year.

What to do with Kalvin Phillips.

The midfielder's debut season at the Etihad was such a non-event that many