Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola expects winger Leroy Sane to miss “six or seven months” with a knee injury.
Sane, 23, tore his anterior cruciate ligament and went off after just 13 minutes of Sunday’s Community Shield win over Liverpool at Wembley.
The German, who was linked with a summer move to Bayern Munich, is set to have surgery in Barcelona next week.
“It is incredibly bad news,” said Guardiola before the champions’ Premier League opener at West Ham on Saturday. Read more