Birmingham City boss Harry Redknapp says missing Champions LEague qualification will hit Manchester City hard.

Redknapp wrote for the London Evening Standard: "City still need another four players to win the title next year. The back four is nowhere near good enough. They need a goalkeeper and we can say for definite now that Guardiola got that situation all wrong by bombing Joe Hart out on loan.

"Claudio Bravo always gives strikers prepared to close him down a chance and that has regularly caused panic in a poor City defence.

"Not having Champions League football will make it more difficult to attract players, but Guardiola is still a big draw and City will pay top dollar.

"All they will do is give the player's agent a bigger fee than the next club, he will then convince his client that's the best move for him and talk up the fact it'll probably be only one year out of Europe's big competition."