Pep Guardiola has found Man City's new Oleksandr Zinchenko but patience will be needed

On Thursday the news that Manchester City fans were waiting for finally broke: the club have addressed their need at left-back. Well, sort of.

City have agreed to sign Spanish left-back Sergio Gomez from Belgian side Anderlecht for a fee of €13million (£11m) plus add-ons. The news comes a week after City failed to sign their prime left-back target, Marc Cucurella.

The club refused to go higher than their £40m offer for the Cucurella, and days later he joined Chelsea in a deal worth up to £63m. That was a big blow for City, who have begun their Premier League title defence with Joao Cancelo as their only senior left-back.

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Gomez won't necessarily solve the issue. While highly rated he is viewed as a high-potential development signing, meaning Pep Guardiola will assess him in training before deciding whether he needs to go out on loan or stay and play a role in the first-team squad.

Either way, City are still looking for a more 'first-team ready' left-back. In some ways, the signing of Gomez resembles that of Oleksandr Zinchenko. The midfielder-turned-left-back - who City sold to Arsenal for £30m this summer - arrived from Russian side FC Ufa in 2016 for a fee of around £1.7m.

After spending pre-season with City, Guardiola decided he did not need Zinchenko in his squad for his first season in English football, so the 19-year-old was sent to PSV Eindhoven on a season-long loan. Things didn't go as planned, and over the next few transfer windows it seemed certain that the Ukrainian would be sold. Zinchenko stayed and fought for his place, even refusing to leave when City accepted a bid from Wolves.

Zinchenko proved to be an absolute bargain,