Pep Guardiola gives huge update on Kevin De Bruyne’s Man City future
Kevin De Bruyne’s future at Manchester City is in his hands,. Pep Guardiola has suggeste amid reports the legendary midfielder will leave the Etihad.
After four consecutive Premier League titles, สมัครสมาชิก UFABET วันนี้ รับเครดิตฟรีทุกวัน as well as a treble, City have endure a difficult 2024/25 campaign, with the club currently 20 points behind league leaders Liverpool.
And following their early exits from the Champions League and Carabao Cup, the. FA Cup is the only major trophy they can lift this season.
They take on Championship side Plymouth Argyle, who shockingly knocke out. Liverpool, in the fifth round of the cup on Saturday evening.
Given their struggles, City are undergoing a massive rebuild of their squad, a process that starte in. January with over £180million spent on five signings including Omar Marmoush and Nico Gonzalez.
Moreover, veteran right-back Kyle Walker left for AC Milan and more outgoings are expecte, with. Guardiola reportedly ready to sanction the departure of EIGHT first-time players.
The manager appears to have distance himself from such rumours however, insisting that. He wants experience players like Ilkay Gundogan and Bernardo Silva to stay.
However the future of De Bruyne, whose deal expires in the summer, remains up in the air, with the Belgian playmaker revealing in November that he had put contract talks on hold.
‘Don’t misunderstand me in what I’ve said,’ Guardiola said in his pre-Plymouth press conference on Friday.
‘There are players here who are over thirty that will be part of the future of this club – except De Bruyne, where he and the club will decide.
The others have contracts and next season I expect them to be here. They are going to help us? Yes or yes!
‘Next season there will be a lot, a lot of games and this lot of games you cannot do it just with new ones, or the old ones – you have to be all together!
‘I count on Gundo, I count on Bernie, I count on all the players who have a Man City contract – they are there! No doubts about that. And they will be really important at the end of this season, and next season.’