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Rodri out until Spetember
Sunday Tribune
|August 10, 2025
Manchester City midfielder Rodri will not be at full fitness until after September's international break, Pep Guardiola has revealed.
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The 2024 Ballon d'Or winner missed most of last season due to ligament damage and without him City failed to mount a strong defence of their Premier League crown.
The 29-year-old Spanish international fought his way back to fitness but suffered a groin injury in City's defeat to Saudi club Al-Hilal at the Club World Cup in the United States last month.
This story is from the August 10, 2025 edition of Sunday Tribune.
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