We simulated Marc Cucurella's move to Man City to see if he'd help them win the Champions League

Marc Cucurella is Manchester City's latest transfer target as Pep Guardiola looks to offset the imminent exit of Oleksandr Zinchenko.

The Ukrainian left-back is set to move to Arsenal for £32million and Guardiola is looking to Brighton's best youngster as his replacement. The English champions have already had a £30m bid rejected for the Spaniard as the Seagulls appear to want at least £50m for him.

City have already had a very busy summer with players joining and leaving. Amongst those to have left the Etihad have been winger Raheem Sterling who made the move to Chelsea for £45m, and Gabriel Jesus who left for Arsenal for £47m. They have brought in two marquee signings in Erling Haaland and Kalvin Phillips. Now, Guardiola could look to bring in another in Cucurella before the season begins.

So if Cucurella does make a move up north, how would Guardiola use him? We simulated the 2022/23 season to find out.

For this simulation to happen, we used the in-game editor for Football Manager 22 to allow the transfer of Cucurella to Man City at the start of the 2022 summer transfer window.

Taking a look at his in-game attributes, the 23-year-old is capable of paying higher up the pitch and pushing forward, overlapping those playing ahead of him. He's then able to put in great crosses to target those centrally, and can use his excellent vision and passing ability to find those open in space.

His individual stats weren't ground-breaking. Overall, the left-back made 41 appearances across all competitions, including 23 Premier League starts and six Champions League starts, with Guardiola using him as a rotation option.

His only league goal came from an 87th-minute penalty in a 4-0 win over Brentford at home, and his two assists