There are just over 48 hours to go until the first transfer deadline day of the summer. The countdown clock to Tuesday's 7pm cut-off won't be in the office of every transfer guru in European football, but it looms large at Manchester City .

That is the deadline for signing players to play in this summer's Club World Cup. They need to wrap up deals by then to include new arrivals on the plane to the United States later in the week for the 32-team tournament that Pep Guardiola hopes can kickstart a refresh within his squad.

He wants new energy in the ranks for the tournament. If City do go all the way they could be on the other side of the Atlantic for five weeks, so as much as the competition is yet to capture the public's imagination, it could become a vital staging post in the tra

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