Manchester City: Pellegrini doing the right business with The Citizens

Jovetic, on the other hand, will not only provide ambition, but also reverberant quality that will offer Pellegrini useful versatility for his squad. Presuming the Chilean uses the 4-2-3-1 he utilised at Malaga and Villarreal, the Montenegrin can play right across the front four, equally at home on the left wing just as he is as a central striker where he has been used most often by Vincenzo Montella at Fiorentina.

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Playing 29 times as a centre-forward last season, he scored 13 times and assisted 5. His close control, pace, sublime technique and muscular physique, reward of long hours in the gym, making him a force regardless of where he is positioned.

Jovetic is unlikely to be played as a central forward at City however, instead settling for a withdrawn position with Edin Dzeko and Alvaro Negredo competing alongside Sergio Aguero for the starting berth of main striker. Negredo, signed for £22 million from Sevilla, is a robust forward full of movement and full of goals, recording 102 from 209 games during his time in Spain.

Negredo was chosen by Vincent Del Bosque to be Spain’s support striker at last year’s European Championships, citing his hold-up play, his strong left-foot and ability in the air as reason to be picked ahead of Valencia’s prolific Roberto Soldado and Atletico Madrid’s Adrian Lopez.

Pellegrini will see Negredo thrive off the service provided by his enviable array of attacking midfield options in the likes of David Silva, Samir Nasri and now Jesus Navas, who supplied Negredo so brilliantly at Sevilla having played together for the last four years.

Negredo has spoken of how he was convinced by the winger to join him in Manchester, “I spoke with him this morning and I told him how happy I was to be playing another year” said the striker, eagerly anticipating another season of Navas’s creative talents, the 27 year old hitting 269 crosses last year, the most in La Liga. A striking duo of Dzeko and Negredo, both tall and strong in the air, will be extremely potent with the presence of the fast-paced and direct Navas on the wing.

It has so far been a more successful and ominous summer in terms of transfer targets for Manchester City than last year’s frustrating dealings which saw money spent on players who flattered to deceive. Pellegrini has seemingly invested in players who he can trust and those who he is sure can successfully adapt to the demands of the Premier League as they prepare intent on winning it back.

They may have missed out on Mario Gotze, but £97 million on four top class talents is sure to soften the blow.