Guardiola fire warning to Kelvin De Bruyne.
He says he will need to fight for a place in the team.
Manchester City Pep Guardiola sent warning to Kelvin De Bruyne as he insist the Belgian will need to fight to win back a regular place in the Etihad side.
De Bruyne has endured a frustrating start to the campaign – he initially lacked match fitness after injuries robbed him of a pre-season before other knocks and a recent spell out with coronavirus prevented him building any momentum.
He returned to action as a second-half substitute in Premier League victory against Watford on Saturday.
He will now start in the Champions League against German club RB Leipzig and will have to prove a point to the Spaniard.
City manager Guardiola while speaking with the media said: “Kevin played all the season from the beginning. He arrived after the Euros in a difficult condition and he played and played and played.
“After that he got coronavirus. Now he has to come back and fight for a position like everyone else.
“Kevin doesn’t have to show absolutely anything to me but he has to come back to being himself and show himself he’s back, and do what he has to do. Like he has done the last five or six years, every single three days.
“Of course the competition is so necessary and he knows it, but Bernardo (Silva) knows it, and (Ilkay) Gundogan knows it, and all the wingers and strikers know it.
“They know they have to play good, (whether) playing five minutes, 10 minutes or 90 minutes.”
