Roy Keane might have just made Kalvin Phillips' Man City transfer decision for him

'It's probably the biggest week or so in my Man City career,' Kalvin Phillips told reporters in the aftermath of Rodri's red card against Nottingham Forest. Instead it may well have been the final nail in the coffin.

The door finally looked to have opened for Phillips last month, having seen Rodri shown a straight red card for grabbing Morgan Gibbs-White round the throat. A three-game ban followed for the ever-present Spaniard and Pep Guardiola was left with a very large hole to fill.

Phillips, the natural replacement in defensive midfield, looked set to get his shot for games against Newcastle United, Wolves and then Arsenal. Ultimately he started the first, in the Carabao Cup, and was part of a losing team before racking up a grand total of 26 minutes in the other two.

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Since signing from Leeds United last year, Phillips' journey with City has been a tough one. He suffered a serious shoulder injury in pre-season and registered just 57 minutes of competitive football before the World Cup.

Over the summer, he doubled down in his desire to fight for first-team football after being told he would have been allowed to leave. Commendable though it is, those minutes simply have not come. Rodri's absence was his first chance to get a genuine shot but it never truly came.

“[Guardiola] doesn’t trust him,” former Manchester United midfielder Roy Keane told the Overlap of Phillips . “He’s had a couple of chances. He played a few weeks ago. But he didn’t play him in the big game with all the injuries.

“He played at Newcastle two or three weeks ago in the cup game, and he