Man City will be 'happy to see' Rodri again

Manchester City's director of football Hugo Viana says the club will be "happy to see" Rodri again after setting up a Champions League reunion with the Spaniard and his new club Barcelona. City have been handed a tough league phase draw, also coming up against holders Paris St-Germain and Napoli. Viana said: "The most important thing is to be here now, so of course there is games for you guys maybe more important or more enthusiastic than others, but for us all the games are very important. "I was saying to one of my colleagues nowadays it's very difficult to compete with any team. So we have very good coaches, very good players everywhere. The players are physically in top shape. So we are ready to compete and the games are all very, very difficult. "Of course, it's always a challenge to play against the European champions. "Rodri is there (Barcelona), we are happy to see him again and also Napoli that we played last year and we had the pleasure to have Kevin on the field and of course facing that opponent and when you have friends on the pitch it's always good. "And I'm happy also that I will see Sporting coming to Manchester, my former club, and I go to my country to face Porto. We go to France to play Lens, they were doing really well. AEK also, they were doing really well last season and Leipzig is a really tough opponent also."