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Manchester City will beryllium without Rúben Dias for up to six weeks pinch a hamstring injury, exacerbating Pep Guardiola’s protect wounded crisis. The shortage of centre-backs could unit nan nine into nan transportation market, pinch nan Crystal Palace captain, Marc Guéhi, of interest.
Dias and Josko Gvardiol, who has a surgery shinbone, were forced disconnected successful Sunday’s tie pinch Chelsea, leaving City pinch 13 fresh elder outfield players for Brighton’s sojourn connected Wednesday. The academy postgraduate Max Alleyne has been recalled from a indebtedness astatine Watford to bolster options successful nan short term.
City are contemplating a bid for Guéhi, and a deal for Antoine Semenyo is close aft Andoni Iraola said he expected Wednesday’s crippled against Tottenham to beryllium nan forward’s past for Bournemouth.
“Khusa [Abdukodir Khusanov] and Nathan [Aké] are backmost arsenic cardinal defenders, Max came backmost from nan indebtedness – I admit what Watford person done for nan young lad,” Guardiola said. “The rest, Omar [Marmoush] and Rayan [Aït-Nouri] are astatine Afcon and nan injuries to John [Stones], to Oscar Bobb.”
Gvardiol, who required surgery, is improbable to play again this season. There is nary timeline connected a return day for Stones, who has a thigh injury.“With nan tone that we have, ever we tin cope,” Guardiola said. “Maybe we will get thing but it’s wholly different, we are not going to bargain 4 aliases 5 players for illustration happened past season.”
