CANCELO'S YET TO GET STARTED

AFTER AN ENCOURAGING DEBUT, CANCELO HAS ALREADY SLIPPED DOWN THE PECKING ORDER

- JOE BRAY

JOAO Cancelo could hardly have got off to a better start at Bayern Munich after shocking the Premier League with his deadline-day exit from City.

An assist within 17 minutes of his Bayern debut, and a second after 14 minutes of his second start, set Cancelo well on the way to forgetting about his frustrating few weeks he’d previously experienced out of the team at City.

However, as Cancelo was being integrated under Julian Nagelsmann, he was also being substituted in all of his first three starts, and was replaced at halftime in the Champions League win at Paris Saint-Germain.

Since then, he has been on the bench for the following three games and was unused at the weekend. A cryptic post on Instagram mirrors one sent shortly before his City exit, with reports in Germany already questioning his attitude in training.