LONDON -- At the end of a week in which Manchester City broke the Premier League transfer record by making Jack Grealish England's first £100 million player, Leicester City's 1-0 Community Shield victory over the champions at Wembley showed they may need to spend even more on Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Kane to give Pep Guardiola's team a realistic chance of retaining their title this season.
Guardiola may have seen the irony in Leicester's winning goal being scored by Kelechi Iheanacho, the Nigeria striker that the City manager determined in 2017 was surplus to requirements because he could not envisage him challenging Sergio Aguero or Gabriel Jesus for a first-team spot at the Etihad.