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

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PSG's Adrien Rabiot
PSG's Adrien Rabiot

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Adrien Rabiot
Adrien Rabiot

Adrien Rabiot was once on Manchester City's roster.

Yeah, you heard it right!

City signed a 13-year-old Rabiot in 2008 from French side Creteil. However, the northeast of England proved too much of a culture shock for the teenager, and the infamously damp Manchester weather proved too much as the young lad headed back to sunny France just six months later.

The Saint-Maurice born midfielder, who famously rejected being in Didier Deschamps' reserves list for the 2018 World Cup, could have been a pivotal player (he's much better than the fragile Ilkay Gundogan in my opinion) for the Citizens had things worked out differently.

With Rabiot running down his contract at Paris Saint-Germain whose gentleman's agreement with FC Barcelona was allegedly broken by the Catalan giants due to his off-field antics, could next season see the return of the (not-so) prodigal son?

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