On beIN Sports this weekend Richard Keys suggested Pep Guardiola should talk to Roy Hodgson or Sam Allardyce about defending. I am probably not alone in struggling to imagine how that phone call would sound.
And anyway, there is a better, more traditional solution. City could just buy some good defenders.
The latest to arrive is the Portuguese Ruben Dias. He cost £65million and made an encouraging debut in the draw at Leeds United. Earlier in the summer City also signed Nathan Ake from Bournemouth for £41m. Both have been added to a roster of central defenders already comprising John Stones (£47m) and Aymeric Laporte (£57m).