Football news - Manchester City's Phil Foden set to miss first month of season with foot injury - reports
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Updated 09/08/2021 at 07:56 GMT
With the start of the Premier League season just four days away, Manchester City are set to welcome a number of first-team players back to training this week. However, they will be without Phil Foden for the first few games of the campaign due to injury while Kevin De Bruyne is also recovering from an ankle issue.
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Manchester City will reportedly be without Phil Foden for a month as he is still recovering from a foot injury suffered at Euro 2020.
Foden, 21, missed England's Euro 2020 final defeat against Italy due to the issue.
He is now not expected to return to action until after the international break, according to the Daily Telegraph, and will at least miss City’s first three Premier League games of the season against Tottenham, Norwich and Arsenal.
He will also sit out England’s World Cup qualifiers against Hungary, Andorra and Poland.
The news is another blow for City, who were without several first-team players as they lost the Community Shield against Leicester on Saturday.
Raheem Sterling, John Stones and Kyle Walker are set to return this week following extended holidays, while Brazil duo Ederson and Gabriel Jesus are also coming back after playing in the Copa America.
Kevin De Bruyne is also recovering from an ankle injury suffered at Euro 2020 and Aymeric Laporte is self-isolating after coming into contact on a flight with a person who tested positive for Covid-19.
Speaking about Foden before the Community Shield, which saw new £100m signing Jack Grealish make his debut, Guardiola said: “Phil will be out for a while, a tough injury, we have to be careful with it.”
City will be hopeful that Foden will be fit to feature in their first game back from the international break against Leicester on September 11.
“On Monday we will be all together,” added Guardiola. “A few players get their conditions so quick. The other ones need a little bit more time. We will see their weight, their body fat, how they arrive and especially their heads.
“There are players who play just three, four or five days and their mentality is positive, ready to fight and suffer in bad conditions, like happened [on Saturday] and some of them need more time. We will try to discover which ones are ready immediately. It depends on their heads. They have had the rest. They are rested so now they can be ready but it depends.”
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