Kyle Walker displays he wondered his Man City transfer and known as his dad for advice on pre-season tour after £53m transfer from Tottenham

Kyle Walker rang his dad and wondered if leaving Tottenham Hotspur was once a ‘mistake’ for the duration of his first pre-season with Manchester City.

The dazzling-support made the transfer from north London to Manchester support in 2017 for a payment of £53 million plus add-ons, marking one in all football’s most costly transfers.

Since then, the Sheffield United academy graduate has obtained ten well-known trophies with City, including three Premier League titles and also initiating within the 2021 Champions League closing versus Chelsea.

Alternatively, irrespective of the success the 31-year-faded has skilled for the duration of his time on the Etihad, Walker‘s initiating to life with City didn’t hunch as deliberate.

The defender spoke to The Telegraph earlier than this weekend’s title showdown between his aspect and 2nd arrangement Liverpool, and the England worldwide made up our minds to launch up about how he came across settling into Pep Guardiola’s personnel.

Ahead of the initiating of the 2017/18 season, City travelled to Boston for pre-season, and Walker admitted that this was once when he began to query his resolution to leave Spurs.

“I’ve told this tale to totally just a few folks but we were in Boston on my first pre-season,” he started. “Take into tale Tottenham had completed above City within the two old seasons.

“Anyway, we did a coaching session and the men, for irrespective of reason, weren’t on it and I rang my dad and said: ‘Dad, I don’t know if I’ve made a mistake right here’.”

Tottenham had come agonisingly shut to a success their first ever Premier League title for two seasons in a row earlier than Walker’s departure, but misplaced out, first to Leicester City, and then London rivals Chelsea.

But irrespective of his being concerned first impressions, fortuitously for Walker it wasn’t long at all sooner than his anxieties over lacking the probability to think trophies disappeared and he realised he made the dazzling resolution.

“But as soon because it bought to the principle sport of the season, Brighton away, it was once love it acceptable clicked, ‘K, we’re going on to think the Premier League’. And we destroyed it.”

In Walker’s first season on the club, City obtained the league with 100 aspects, 19 ahead of 2nd arrangement Manchester United and, most notably, with 23 larger than his customary club, Spurs, who completed third.

It’s great to think Walker questioning his resolution to leave Spurs brooding about what he and City web completed since.

And given his present contract runs out in 2024, Walker has an awfully good deal of time to continue adding to his long record of achievements and pull off some extra of his not most likely arrangement line clearances.