Preparations for the start of the season are gathering momentum at the City Football Academy.

The countdown to our first game of the campaign has begun with the Community Shield curtain-raiser against Manchester United coming up.

Pep Guardiola and his team were practicing on the training fields ahead of this Saturday’s 15:00 (UK) Manchester derby at Wembley.

And there were lots of indications of the enchantment that has helped us win the Premier League the last four years.