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Pep Guardiola's clues for the opening day of the season, Man City's wildcard scoring threat and hope for John Stones: THINGS WE LEARNED from their 3-0 win over Palermo

Manchester City capped off their pre-season preparations with a comfortable win over Serie B side Palermo.

Erling Haaland characteristically opened the scoring before Tijjani Reijnders added a brace to secure a 3-0 victory against the Italian side.

City's first Premier League opponents will be away at Wolves, who lost Rayan Ait-Nouri in a £36.3million deal to Pep Guardiola's side.

Here, Daily Mail Sport’s Jack Gaughan reveals five things he learned from Saturday night's clash in Italy.

HUGE WEEKS FOR GONZALEZ

It is hard to escape the idea that these are huge weeks in the City career of Nico Gonzalez.