With minor tweaks, Pep Guardiola reshapes new Man City project

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Joe Hart, one of a number of England players to emerge from the summer’s disastrous Euro 2016 campaign with his reputation dented, was left out of Guardiola’s first City selection, his place going to Argentinian deputy Wily Caballero, a keeper whose City career to date can most kindly be described as mediocre.

Guardiola insists that Hart, along with other high-profile absentees like Yaya Toure, Samir Nasri and Eliaquim Mangala, still has a firm future with the club but it is difficult to see how, in the case of a goalkeeper who was pilloried for his performances in France.