Pep Guardiola is ready to sanction the departures of as many as eight Manchester City stars as the club plots a summer transfer rebuild, according to reports. A disappointing season for the defending Premier League champions went from bad to worse in midweek after they were knocked out of the Champions League play-offs by Real Madrid.

Once the dashing star of the Champions League show, this is now a team whose response to every opposition attack is little more than an "uh oh, Spaghetti-o." The City team you thought you knew is gone.

Manchester City’s Pep Guardiola stunned Etihad staff and players after a collapse in the Champions League this season by ‘locking himself in his office’, it has been revealed.The latest inside