Tell that to Guardiola who likes to use as many creative mids as possible. I'll just put here a starting 11 that won the 2011 CWC vs Santos:
Valdes, Puyol, Pique, Abidal, Busquets, Xavi, Iniesta, Cesc, Thiago, Alves, Messi.
I'll tell that to Guardiola who continually blamed lack of ruthlessness in the box for our woes last season. "City must buy goals this summer" for example.
It's irrelevant as we are interested in signing Sanchez and/or Mbappe anyway, that's a fact.