With Sergio Aguero leaving at the end of the season, Manchester City is on the lookout for a first-choice striker for the first time in 10 years.

The player who is likely on top of the club’s wish-list is heading to Etihad Stadium next week.

A major sub-plot in Tuesday’s Champions League quarter final between City and Borussia Dortmund centres around Erling Haaland.

That the next stage of Haaland’s career could come under Guardiola at City makes sense for a number of reasons.

First, City is guaranteed to be needing a striker to replace Aguero. Then there are Haaland’s links to City through his father, Alf-Inge, who played for the club before retiring in 2003 at the age of 30 because of injury.

City, however, has never paid the kind of transfer fee that is likely to be required to take Haaland out of Dortmund.

Will the club would change its approach to spending? Or, City may consider making a bid for Harry Kane.