Laporte to Man City: Guardiola continues huge defence spending

Manchester City’s evolution under Pep Guardiola is most readily associated with free-flowing attacking football, but Aymeric Laporte’s arrival for a club-record £57million from Athletic Bilbao continues a remarkable run of spending big at the other end of the pitch. This trend goes back to Manuel Pellegrini’s time in charge and was accelerated last year as […]