Chances with Pep Guardiola‘s City since have been limited not by talent but by the quality in front of him – so much so that some voices have suggested he leaves the club either on loan or permanently.
Such suggestions meet with a shake of the head from the teenager and an insistence that, at City, he is not only at the club he loves but getting the best education a footballer could wish for.
“I remember thinking when I made the step up from the academy on the first day of training (with the first team) I was thinking ‘How am I going to handle this?’” he says.
“But I fitted in quite quickly and training with such great players every day makes you better.
“It is not what these players ‘teach’ you, it is just watching them in training and playing against the likes of Silva.
