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International calls may leave Manchester City to begin their pre-season arrangements with as little as nine first-team players before the new Premier League season.
The Premier League’s purpose of postponing City’s initial attack on Aston Villa was to give them more time for their participation in the Champions League, so their first game of the season will be in Wolves on the weekend of September 19.
However, the truce scheduled for September 3 and 8 is key at work, with six players already called to set up their country.
New recruits Nathan Ake and Ferran Torres will sign up for the Dutch and Spanish groups respectively, while Eric Garcia and Rodri will also get calls in Spain, and Portuguese duo Bernardo Silva and Joao Cancelo are part of the Portuguese team.
The England team will be announced Tuesday, with Kyle Walker, Raheem Sterling and Phil Foden in line to get Gareth Southgate’s go-ahead. It would be wonderful to see John Stones on this list of teams, but the stage of central England is not so good. as transparent as a week ago, so I might get lucky.
Aymeric Laporte and Benjamin Mendy will hope to be named to the France squad, while Kevin De Bruyne and Ilkay Gundogan will form their own country for the first time since 2019. Ukrainian Aleks Zinchenko is another normal in his country.
If all of the previous players are summoned, City may leave his American and African contingent alone (Ederson, Fernandinho, Gabriel Jesus, Nicolas Otamendi, Sergio Aguero, Riyad Mahrez and Zack Steffen), in addition to the return of Loanee Angelino and third goalkeeper Scott Carson. However, Angelino is sought after through RB Leipzig and Barcelona.
Philippe Sandler’s loan to Anderlecht expired at the end of last season, so he may be worried, but he hasn’t been since December when he underwent knee surgery, while Patrick Roberts is firmly out of the first team’s image, indexed. along with De Bruyne and Foden on the City website.