GETTY Joe Hart will be dropped against Sunderland with Marc Andre ter Stegen linked

Guardiola has opted to pick Willy Caballero for the Premier League opener with Sunderland and also wants to continue overhauling his squad by signing Barcelona stopper Marc-Andre ter Stegen. The City manager does not think Hart fits his model of having a goalkeeper who can play the ball out from the back and that will put a host of other clubs on alert. Hart will not give up on his City career easily as he has shown in the past, but if he is not given the chance to prove himself to Guardiola he would have little option but to weigh up his situation.

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Everton would be interested in signing Hart, either on loan or permanently, although the England stopper has proved himself in the Champions League and may secure interest from abroad. Ter Stegen fits the ‘sweeper keeper’ Guardiola wants and the German does not want to be understudy to Claudio Bravo again this season. However, he has a £68m release cause in his contract. Guardiola said yesterday: “With a goalkeeper I talk to him – ‘Here is the ball at your feet’ – and about what he has to do [with it] rather than what he has to do with his hands. We have the goalkeeping coach for that.