After six years in the Paris Saint-Germain engine room, and nearly 12 months at Juventus, Adrien Rabiot knows his way around top-level football.
But the France international could easily have wound up at Manchester City had fate taken a different turn. The 25-year-old made his name at PSG as the consummate midfielder, with a little bit of everything but not quite enough of any one thing to be regarded as world class.
Still, Rabiot would not have been out of place in Blues squads in which Gareth Barry, James Milner and now Rodri have all thrived.
Back in 2008, at the age of 13, Rabiot rocked up in Manchester with his mum Veronique, having been invited by City scouts who spotted his potential while he was still at the French national academy
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