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Spanish coach Pep Guardiola, coach of Manchester City, the English record champion (four times in a row), warned his Belgian star Kevin De Bruyne, whose contract expires next July, before facing Feyenoord on Tuesday in the Champions League competition, and hinted at selling him if he does not return to his level.
Guardiola said: “I don’t know if Kevin will stay. He wants to end his career here, but I am confident that he will not believe this if he does not feel that he will do what he has done in the past 10 years.” In these kinds of circumstances, as happened with David Silva, Kevin will decide what is best for him and the team. I do not ask him to play every 3 days over the course of 11 months, but I want him to play the best version of himself, and unfortunately due to injuries, he was unable to do so.”
De Bruyne (33 years old) has only played 38 minutes since last September and has been training for 4 weeks with the team, but he does not trust his ability to participate in matches. He said: “Every time I shoot the ball, I feel real pain in my thigh. I tried to find a way to treat and recover.” My strength but it took a long time. “It only got better on Friday, I don’t know how.”
Regarding the number of injured people, De Bruyne said: “The situation was a bit chaotic. I saw many players entering the treatment room, whether participating in the game or not, and players who should not have participated, but they participated with injuries.”
Guardiola admitted that the team’s season, according to City’s standards, was bad and warned his players against giving up the title to Liverpool. Pointing to the sky, he said: “We came from there, so we will go down if we lose.” That’s nice, I think we deserve some patience when we lose games, it won’t be a big mess. You are defending legitimacy, heritage and success which is a difficult task. If we can’t defend, we have to try to focus on the short term and win the next match. What I want is commitment from the players. We will congratulate Liverpool if they win the title because they deserve it, not because we gave it to them.”
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