Stefan Ortega Moreno can match Joao Cancelo impact at Man City

Joao Cancelo was signed by Manchester City in 2019 for a significant sum not just for what he could add to the team but for what he could bring to Kyle Walker's game.

After two years with the England international, Pep Guardiola had decided that Walker wasn't being pushed enough and this was having a negative impact on his form; it is easy to forget that Danilo played in City's 2-1 win over Liverpool in January 2019 that ended up so important in the title race that season because the first-choice right-back had been dropped. Danilo, despite some good performances, couldn't do enough to regularly challenge Walker and so a swap of sorts made sense.

It may have taken a year for Cancelo to get up to speed with what Guardiola wanted, but hearing a £60m player come in and say they wanted to be the starting right-back in the club had the desired effect on Walker. Even if the 2019/20 campaign wasn't a vintage year for many in Blue, he has shown improvement in subsequent years and remains integral to how the manager wants his team to be.

The arrival of Stefan Ortega Moreno has already had a knock-on effect in the goalkeeping department. Zack Steffen has been No.2 for the past two years but will head to Championship side Middlesbrough on a season-long loan where he hopes to cement his starting place at the World Cup with the US men's national team.

Whether he can return to his previous position in 2023 is in doubt though given there is no sense that Ortega Moreno is a stop-gap. He has signed a three-year deal, was one of the standout keepers in the Bundesliga last season and has been talked up by sporting director Txiki Begiristain.

If anything, Ortega Moreno is seen as fresh competition for Ederson. City's No.1 did not deserve