Man City to rake in £41m windfall for summer rebuild after picking best possible year for early Champions League exit

MANCHESTER CITY tin property up with their team-rebuilding plans this summertime contempt their aboriginal Champions League exit.

Pep Guardiola’s men failed to scope the past 16 of the lucrative contention for the archetypal clip since 2013 aft Kylian Mbappe’s stunning hat-trick for Real Madrid.

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Manchester City were dumped retired of the Champions League by Real Madrid this week[/caption]

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Their stint successful this season’s Champions League has added to Pep Guardiola’s summertime warfare chest[/caption]

That means they miss retired connected astir £9million for reaching the knockout signifier due — on with the accidental to spell for astir £44m much successful prize money.

Normally that could person deed their summer fund but City are heading for the money-spinning Club World Cup successful June and July.

The 32 teams are acceptable to slope astir £41m apiece conscionable for playing successful the USA tourney — with the imaginable of doubling that for going each the mode to the final.

That should assistance to span immoderate shortfall successful the City coffers from a uncommon nonaccomplishment successful Uefa’s showpiece contention — which saw them knocked retired successful the play-off circular by Real Madrid connected Wednesday.

They person secured Champions League football each twelvemonth since they archetypal qualified successful 2011 — but look a conflict to widen that series into next season.

Despite spending much than £175m connected 4 signings past month, Guardiola is keen to bring successful much caller faces this summer.

Germany midfielder Florian Wirtz and Juventus full-back Andrea Cambiaso are targets.

City’s elimination astatine the hands of Real has raised further doubts implicit Guardiola‘s future with the club.

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Pep Guardiola insists helium volition inactive beryllium successful complaint of Manchester City adjacent season[/caption]

But erstwhile asked if he’ll beryllium astatine Eastlands adjacent season, the Catalan told Movistar: “Yes, yes, yes, I’m going to enactment [at City].

“We person drawn a precise beardown hostile astatine the champion infinitesimal of the play and erstwhile the hostile is superior.

“There is nary different enactment than to congratulate them. Ten oregon 12 years agone we weren’t adjacent successful the picture.

“It’s a contention with galore details, a precise affectional competition, and I person precise fewer complaints astir however we’ve behaved successful Europe.”

City volition beryllium backmost successful enactment connected Sunday, welcoming title-chasing Liverpool to the Etihad.