Laporte ready to battle for his Manchester City place

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Aymeric Laporte expects a fight to keep his place in the Manchester City side whether the champions buy a new centre-back this summer or not&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Pep Guardiola has one fewer senior central defender in his squad following the departure of captain Vincent Kompany at the end of last season&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>City have been heavily linked with Leicester’s Harry Maguire but have given no indication whether they are likely to push for a deal&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>That leaves Laporte&comma; John Stones and Nicolas Otamendi as the club’s recognised centre-halves&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Laporte&comma; who was outstanding and featured in 49 of the treble winners’ 61 games in all competitions last season&comma; said&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&&num;8220&semi;Hopefully it can be the same this year&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m here to start&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m going to work for that&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I don’t know &lpar;if the club will buy&rpar;&period; Ask Pep what he wants&period; I think the three of us are putting ourselves forward to play every game&comma; but we don’t decide&period; The club decides for us&period;”<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Guardiola has refused to be drawn on the possibility of signing Maguire whenever he has been asked by media during the club’s pre-season tour of Asia&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He has indicated he would like to sign another defender but has claimed that he is well covered if he cannot find the right player&comma; even suggesting midfielder Fernandinho could play in the position&period; The record summer signing of midfielder Rodri could facilitate a reshuffle of the team&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Laporte said&colon; <em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Yes it’s possible&period; Fernandinho is a very good player&period; I think he can play wherever he wants so&comma; yes&comma; he can play centre-back too&period;”<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>After last season’s successes&comma; City will begin the new campaign as Premier League favourites&period; With Rodri coming in to bolster the midfielder ranks&comma; there are few obvious weaknesses in the City squad but Laporte accepts it will be difficult to replicate the last campaign&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The 25-year-old said&colon; <em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We will try&period; I think we have the same team and there’s someone else who has come in who can complete the team but we know it will be difficult&period;”<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed11fc118e5">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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