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Premier League clubs 'unanimously' reject Super League plans
The clubs met with league chiefs and the English Football Association to discuss the breakaway competition -- involving the "big six" of Arsenal, Chelsea,...
City are one of 12 clubs to have signed up to the proposal, alongside Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, Juventus, Inter Milan and AC Milan.
But his potential successor at the Etihad next season, Erling Braut Haaland, will pose the biggest threat if Pep Guardiola's men are to stumble at the quarter-final stage once more against Borussia Dortmund.
The Champions League is the one trophy that has remained elusive to Guardiola during his five years in Manchester with City failing to ever get beyond the last eight under the Catalan.
Pep Guardiola's side were on an English top-flight record run of 21 successive wins in all competitions heading into the Manchester derby.
The stalemate at a foggy Selhurst Park was United's third successive goalless draw in all competitions ahead of Sunday's Manchester derby against City, who are on a record-breaking 21-game winning streak.
Pep Guardiola shuffled his pack at the Etihad against the team who did the league double against them last season as he maintained his club's assault on an unprecedented quadruple.
Four Premier League matches have so far been called off, including City's trip to Everton last month, but a different approach appears to have been taken in the FA Cup over the weekend.
For the fourth time in the past two seasons, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's men were eliminated from a cup competition in the last four as they were beaten 2-0 by Manchester City in the League Cup on Wednesday.
That figure is more than double the previous record of 18 positive cases and comes as England enters a nationwide lockdown to halt soaring infection rates.
That contract extension remains unsigned amid claims De Bruyne was "disappointed" City's offer did not significantly improve his reported salary of £280,000 ($380,000) per week.
Frank Lampard's side suffered a fourth defeat in their last six Premier League games on Sunday as Manchester City eased to a 3-1 win.
City revealed there had been four positive cases at the club on Christmas Day, including for players Kyle Walker and Gabriel Jesus.
City ensured it will be a miserable Christmas for beleaguered Arsenal boss Arteta by condemning his side to a fourth defeat in their last six games in all competitions.
City face another 17 games in 2020 with all six Champions League group-stage matches packed into a seven-week stretch either side of the November international break.
Sergio Aguero, who returned from a four-month spell out with injury in Saturday's 1-0 win over Arsenal, has entered the last 12 months of his existing deal.
Pep Guardiola is entering the final year of his current deal and a fifth season at the same club for the first time in his managerial career.
The Bundesliga champions did not give the transfer fee, but Sky Sports and the BBC have reported that Bayern and City agreed a fee of £54.8 million (59.97 million euros, $67.36 million).
Klopp was quick to defend his team’s attitude, rejecting any suggestion they had taken the game lightly.