Manchester Metropolis stayed only a level behind Premier League leaders Liverpool with a 3-2 win over Fulham at The Etihad on Saturday. 

A Mateo Kovacic brace and a Jeremy Doku purpose earned Pep Guardiola’s facet an essential victory in opposition to the Cottagers, who had taken the lead by Andreas Pereira and scored late on courtesy of Rodrigo Muniz.

The outcome leaves Metropolis second within the desk, a single level behind the Reds.

Guardiola will hope to see his facet win a seventh trophy prior to now eight years, and the Residents can even prolong their document of most consecutive prime flight titles that they gained by successful the league final time period.

With the January switch window quick approaching, Metropolis’s title rivals might quickly be dealt a frightening blow.

In line with Soccer Insider, the reigning Premier League champions could have loads of cash to spend when the window reopens.

The report claims that Metropolis’s beneficiant price range will come partially from the sale of ahead Julian Alvarez to Atletico Madrid over the summer season.

The Argentina worldwide was offered to the La Liga facet for a price of round £81.5 million, and the report claims that they’ve put aside round £80 million to spend in the course of the mid-season window.

A midfielder is prone to be prime of Guadiola’s procuring checklist, following the information that Rodri is anticipated to overlook the rest of the present marketing campaign because of damage.

Regardless of this, it’s prompt that Metropolis’s choice could be to discover a resolution to Rodri’s absence from throughout the present squad.

The likes of Mateo Kovacic, Rico Lewis and Matheus Nunes will all be vying to say themselves as Rodri’s alternative, however the report claims that, if an appropriate participant is offered, Metropolis do have the funds to signal somebody.