Manchester City's best ever XI ... The right-back 🤜 | OneFootball

With the football on hold at the moment, we’ve been thinking about who gets in Manchester City’s all-time XI.

Today we’re choosing the right-back.

Here are the nominees …

3rd – Tony Book

Having spent much of his career in non-league football, Book didn’t join City until Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison took a punt on him at the ripe age of 31.

It proved to be a stroke of genius, however, as he went on to (at the point) become the most decorated captain in the club’s history by winning the First Division title in 1968, the FA Cup in ’69 and the League Cup and European Cup Winners Cup in 1970.

Now 85-years-old, he’s still known to everyone at City as ‘Skip’ to this day.

2nd – Kyle Walker

City smashed the world record transfer fee for a defender when they spent a reported £50m on Walker in the summer of 2017, and it proved to be money well spent.

The England international was exactly the sort of mobile full-back Pep Guardiola’s side were crying out for at the time and in almost three seasons at the club, he has so far played 130 games, scored three goals and won six major trophies.

And he even kept a clean sheet when he went in goal last year!

And the winner is … Pablo Zabaleta

Unlike Walker, the modest £6m City spent on signing Zabaleta from Espanyol back in 2008 raised few eyebrows and in truth, little was expected of the relatively unknown Argentine.

Nine years later, he left the club having won five major honours but perhaps more importantly, the hearts and minds of the City faithful.

Zaba never shirked a tackle and literally shed blood for the club on countless occasions.

He scored the forgotten first goal in that game against Queens Park Rangers and will forever be an adopted Mancunian hero.

Here’s how the team is looking so far …

GK: Bert Trautmann RB: Pablo Zabaleta

Check back tomorrow when we will be choosing Manchester City’s greatest ever … left-back.