Silva clear on Man City futurepublished at 19:54 BST
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Bernardo Silva says he knows what his future holds as he nears the end of his contract.
The 31-year-old’s deal expires at the end of the season.
Speaking before leading Manchester City out as captain against his former club Monaco in the Champions League on Wednesday, Silva said: “I know exactly what I’m going to do but it’s not the time to focus on it.
“It’s to do my best, to put the club back to where it belongs. We’ve had a lot of captains who’ve left but it’s for the guys who have the most experience to pass it on to the young guys.
“Manchester City was so successful in the last eight years not because one captain was really good but because we have a group of great leaders.
“As the first captain you have to make sure some things don’t happen – to create that environment but what we’ve seen is a group of great characters.
“My job now is to try to create that energy, that chemistry as a group of captains – me, Ruben (Dias), Rodri, Erling (Haaland) – so people behave in the right way.”
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