Barcelona defender Jules Kounde revealed that he almost ended up at Manchester City, after a phone call from Pep Guardiola in 2019.
The French defender, who was heavily linked with a move to Chelsea before ultimately joining Barcelona for £46million this summer, admitted he could have ended up in City blue before deciding to stay at Sevilla for three more seasons.
Guardiola never ended up signing a first-team centre-back in the summer of 2019, instead promoting Eric Garcia - also now at Barcelona - to the senior squad in pursuit of cover for Aymeric Laporte, Vincent Kompany and John Stones.