Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola confirmed that it was the club’s decision not to offer Kevin de Bruyne a new contract so that they had more funds to continue with his dramatic squad revise This summer.
Announced from Bruyne Let the city leave at the end of the current campaign on Friday in an emotional post of social media without revealing which party was behind the decision to separate. “Whether we like it or not, it’s time to say goodbye,” wrote the 33-year-old young man in Manchester.
Guardiola has previously stressed That the discussions about Bruyne’s future did not worry. “What happens belongs to him and the club,” said the Catalan coach in February. However, after the news was presented this week, Guardiola exposed his participation in the process that was finally taken out of Bruyne’s control.
“The decision has been made for the club and the club is the club,” the head of the city admitted. “I, Txiki (Begiristain – the city’s sports director) and the club, so it is what it is. It wasn’t easy for me to say – it will not continue.”
Guardiola had suggested To a potential separation of ways of Bruyne and several other members prone to the city squad injuries earlier this season. “We must sit with doctors, with physios, players, agents, and be clear that some of them cannot sustain every three days, every month, every two months, playing every three, four days,” admitted the former Bayern Munich and Barcelona Bayern minister.
Of bruyneThe body was unable to keep up to date with the relentless football calendar during the previous two seasons, as Guardiola said this week: “In the last year and a half he was injured because he gave the whole club. Everything he had in his body and mind, he has done so, so there is no doubt.”
The telegraph He claims that De Bruyne is paid in the region of £ 400,000 per week. If this figure is accurate, the Belgian departure will release almost 21 million pounds for the city to spend next season, as in the transfer costs or the salary of a new arrival.
The city has long been related to a movement for Bayer Leverkusen’s Florian Wirtz player Order more than £ 100 million.
