Managing Man City - Kevin De Bruyne replacement, £61m transfer solution and £30m wildcard

Manchester City will be heading into the next stage of their transfer rebuild this summer and they will hope to do so having qualified for the Champions League and won the FA Cup.

City are in a strong position to seal a top five place and Champions League football next term and travel to Wembley next weekend to take on Crystal Palace in the FA Cup final.

If they are to return to European football's premier competition next season then they would have given themselves the best possible opportunity to strengthen further in the transfer market this summer, given the extra finances the competition brings.

Having signed Omar Marmoush, Nico Gonzalez, Abdukodir Khusanov, Vitor Reis and Juma Bah in January, City are expected to be busy again this summer.

Hugo Viana will be in charge of recruitment this summer, replacing Txiki Begiristain as the club's sporting director, having impressed in a similar role with Portuguese champions Sporting CP.

With that in mind, MEN Sport have had a stab at taking over from Viana and managing the Blues in the summer transfer window.

City's key priority in the summer transfer window is replacing the creative talents of Kevin De Bruyne.

The Belgium international midfielder has enjoyed a trophy-laden 10-year spell at the Etihad Stadium but will leave the club on a free transfer when his contract expires next month.

The 33-year-old will leave as arguably City's greatest ever player which means the task of replacing him sufficiently is absolutely vital.

At present, the choice City are mulling over is whether to move for Bayer Leverkusen star Florian Wirtz or Nottingham Forest's talisman Morgan Gibbs-White.

Wirtz was the catalyst behind Leverkusen's historic season last term which saw them win an