City midfielder İlkay Gündoğan is heading to his native Gelsenkirchen to take on Schalke; “I still have my best friends there,
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On City’s UEFA Champions League ambitions
We’ve experienced a lot in the Champions League in recent years – not all of it positive, of course. We should’ve won it at least once.
Every club, every team, every single player would like to lift this trophy some time. The competition to win it is so big year in, year out, so your chances are not that good, but there’s a team that wins it every year. If you want to be in the international elite, as a club and as a player, you need to clinch this trophy. If we were to win it someday, the club would enter a new era – the same level as Real [Madrid], Barça, Bayern or Juventus. Our job is to try to give it our all to make that a reality.
