Manchester City were not too busy in the summer, but one player has now been speaking about how close he came to departing. Manchester City sanctioned only one major outgoing in the last transfer window. After lots of speculation, Julian Alvarez left Man City to join Atletico Madrid for a fee north of £80 million. The Alvarez sale is some of Txiki Begiristain’s finest work, after the Argentine was brought in for just £14 million just two years earlier. There were suggestions that Kevin De Bruyne might have gone too, with clubs in Saudi Arabia very keen on the Belgian. In the end, nothing mater…