Just looked that up as couldn’t remember him frim City at all.
Never even trained with the first team. Went there after one year of professional football then spent three years on loan.
First season played 13 times for his club. He just wasn’t ready. A strange buy really by city.
Guess they made money on the sell on clause. Arguably would not have developed in the same way playing sporadically at City.
Rumours were that he and Guardiola didn't get along.
They had a buy back clause when at Sporting and even when he was tearing it up, they never considered it once.