{"id":70102,"date":"2025-08-09T13:37:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T13:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/70102\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T13:37:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T13:37:06","slug":"man-citys-rodri-wont-be-fit-for-start-of-season-guardiola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/70102\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City’s Rodri won’t be fit for start of season – Guardiola"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester City<\/a> midfielder Rodri<\/a> has suffered an injury setback which will not see him return to full fitness until after September’s international break, head coach Pep Guardiola has said.<\/p>\n

The Spain<\/a> international was absent for the majority of last season with a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) but, after returning late in the campaign, he is believed to have sustained a groin problem during City’s Club World Cup exit to Al-Hilal<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n

“Rodri’s getting better but he had a big injury in the last game against Al Hilal and for the last five or six weeks,” Guardiola said.<\/p>\n

“He’s training right now and in the last two or three days is better. Hopefully maybe the international break is when he will be really, really fit.<\/p>\n

Rodri looked to have suffered a groin issue in Manchester City’s Club World Cup exit to Al Hilal in July.\u00a0Alex Grimm\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

“Hopefully, in the games [prior to that] he can play some minutes but the important thing is to not have pain because we don’t want him to be come back and injured, come back and injured.<\/p>\n

“We will try desperately to avoid that but he’s training the last two or three days with us and that’s good.”<\/p>\n

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Rodri, Phil Foden<\/a> and Mateo Kovacic<\/a> — who had surgery on an Achilles injury in the summer — were all left out of City’s travelling squad for the Anglo Palermitan Trophy game against Palermo<\/a> in Sicily on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Asked if they would be available for next weekend’s Premier League<\/a> opener at Wolves, Guardiola added: “90 minutes for Rodri, I don’t think so.<\/p>\n

“Phil [Foden], hopefully, it depends on the problem but it’s a long week so hopefully but Kova [is] injured until September or October. Hopefully [he will be back] earlier.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City midfielder Rodri has suffered an injury setback which will not see him return to full fitness…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-70102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}