The likelihood of Pep Guardiola moving to Manchester City sooner rather than later is getting higher and, according to reports, the Bayern boss wants Alexis when he does.

Although Pep has been linked with the Arsenal job once Arsene Wenger stands down, it’s far more likely that the former Barcelona manager will move to the Sky Blues and his first bit of business he wants to complete when he gets there is buying Alexis.

You can’t really blame him. Alexis is superb. But it won’t happen. The days of us constantly having to sell our best players to rivals are gone and City would have to pay a phenomenal amount of cash to get us to part ways with one of our star players.

Even if Alexis wanted to move, which you would hope he wouldn’t, Arsenal won’t let him go to a rival.

We now have the funds available to keep hold of him and appear to be on the up, so there’s no reason why he should go.