Manchester City have not suffered a Premier League defeat bigger than the one inflicted on them at the Emirates Stadium yesterday than in the pre-Sheikh Mansour days, when they were hammered 8-1 at Middlesbrough in 2008.

Manchester City has taken its spending in the winter transfer window to more than $200 million by signing midfielder Nico Gonzalez from Porto to help cover for the absence of injured Rodri.

Manchester City have secured the signing of midfielder Nico Gonzalez from Porto for a fee of €60 million (£49.9m/$62.1m). Gonzalez has signed a four-and-a-half-year contract and is City’s fourth signing of the window following the arrivals of Omar Marmoush,