Ruben Dias may have arrived at Manchester City with a £62 million ($80m) price tag and a big billing as the defensive leader that the Blues are crying out for, but Micah Richards says “nobody will ever replace Vincent Kompany”.
Pep Guardiola is hoping to prove that a suitable successor to a Belgian icon can be found at the Etihad Stadium.
Dias is the latest to be charged with the task of filling some big boots, with the Portuguese having been snapped up from Benfica.
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Richards hopes the 23-year-old can hit the ground running in English football, with City seemingly throwing in the towel when slipping to a 5-2 defeat against Leicester in their last Premier League outing, but the former Blues defender says the efforts of club legends will not be emulated.