A £28M CITY FLOP? THAT’S A LOAD OF BALONEY SAYS BONY

WILFRIED BONY may be mildmannered but he will pick a fight with anyone who says he was a £28million flop at Manchester City.

The Ivorian international – who once left Garry Monk with a broken finger when the former Swansea City manager poked him in the chest – is back at the club where he built his goalscoring reputation.

Bony (below) will be unleashed by the Swans at home to Newcastle today, admitting his pride was dented at City under Pep Guardiola, but insisting it was injuries that undermined him.

“Was my pride hurt? Yes,” said Bony, who managed just six Premier League goals at City and only two more on loan last season at Stoke.

“I went to City and I didn’t enjoy it as much as I thought I would. I didn’t have the capacity to do more. My problem at City was the injuries I had. They stopped me from playing and training as I wanted to.

“I had some good moments from October to December in 2015, but then I got injured again and I didn’t play for a month.

“I came back for the League Cup final against Liverpool but then I had more injuries and it was quite difficult. There was not one month when I was not injured.”

The 28-year-old managed 36 league appearances at the Etihad club as a succession of niggling ailments blunted the sharpness that had brought him 34 goals in 70 matches in his first spell at Swansea.

But he was already stamped ‘sale or return’ long before Guardiola arrived at City and believes the sheer