5 players you would be surprised to know were once at Manchester City

#4 Rony Lopes

Rony Lopes

City signed Bernardo Silva for a whopping £50 million and Benjamin Mendy for a world record £52 million from AS Monaco. However, they'd wish Rony Lopes hadn't made the reverse journey.

This is not to say that Man City don't have players in the class of the Portuguese sensation on their books, because of course, they do. It'd be very difficult for the lad from Belem to get into this City squad, let alone be a regular starter for the club.

But having watched Lopes put in spectacular performances one after another in the 2017-18 season, City would look at his sale to the principality club with a sense of regret. He scored 15 league goals from midfield for Monaco, playing every game in the process.

Having signed a 16-year-old Lopes in 2011 from Benfica, City sold the Brazil-born attacking midfielder in 2015 for a paltry £9 million.