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Champs £50m off on Kane

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last season and we lost the absolute legend Sergio Aguero and in came Jack Grealish.

“I am more than pleased with the squad we have.”

Grealish was a maker rather than a taker of goals at old club Aston Villa.

But Guardiola has demanded that all of his players must now step up to the plate in front of goal.

He added: “If Jack gets the mentality to score goals like Raheem Sterling, then he can do it.

“When I arrived here four of five years ago, Raheem didn’t have the goal in his mind. That changed.

“Today Raheem scored a goal because he arrived in the central position like a

No.9.

“He is a machine there. He has decided he is going to score, score, score.

“Jack needs to have that mentality. It was important that he scored his first goal – but most important is our first victory.

“We are still not in top form and we still have many things to do.

“But this was really good. I am happy with our first three points – hopefully it won’t be the last.”

City are still £50million short of meeting Spurs’

£150m valuation of Kane. The champions are approachin­g D-Day in their bid to land the England captain, 28, with Spurs chairman Daniel Levy refusing to cave in on the striker’s demand to be allowed to leave.

City are still to improve on their opening offer of

£100m – and Tottenham have no interest in taking players to sweeten any deal.

It has been suggested that City would hike their bid to £120m with further add-ons but that has yet to happen.

Levy has refused to set a price for them to pay but it is believed that £150m would bring him to the negotiatin­g table.

When City made their play they believed the “gentleman’s agreement” Kane struck with Levy when he signed a six-year contract in 2018 would allow him to leave for

£100m should Spurs fail to qualify for the Champions League for a second season running.

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STICKING POINT: Kane

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