Yet Garcia was more representative of the club's less successful past, the period in which they spent big on players without having a clear, cohesive plan in place. Indeed, City's signings during the summer of 2012 – Garcia, Scott Sinclair, Maicon, Matija Nastasic, Richard Wright – read like a who’s who of the worst arrivals of the Sheikh Mansour reign. Garcia undoubtedly had talent and potential when he arrived in Manchester but he is now something of a forgotten man. The defensive midfielder had started out at Real Madrid but failed to penetrate the first team in two separate spells. He made his Blancos debut aged 17 in November 2004, and looked set for a bright Santiago Bernabeu future, but after three Liga matches in 2004-05, he didn’t play in the first team again for the next two seasons.