Warning for Bayern as City show steel

THEY have attracted plenty of derision in England but Manchester City must have felt like they had finally made it when Bayern Munich started having pot-shots at them.

If it was not Uli Hoeness ridiculing the transfer policy under Mark Hughes, it was Karl-Heinz Rumenigge joking that City would attempt to register 48 players in their Champions League squad.

Tomorrow night the talking will stop in the Allianz Arena, for what promises to be a compelling clash.