Nathan Ake can hold his own sitting at a piano and has been known to produce the odd performance back at base on European trips with Manchester City.
Ake fancied mastering a new skill during the first lockdown when football stopped and has an impressive ear. What the Dutchman probably doesn’t know is that there is some history of musical showmanship when it comes to City abroad.
The scenes inside a Vienna hotel around this time 53 years ago were not quite so stylish. Francis Lee clambered on top of a piano, played by the head scout Harry Godwin, and sang to a jubilant travelling party wearing just his briefs.