{"id":532316,"date":"2023-10-22T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/?p=532316"},"modified":"2023-10-22T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T09:00:00","slug":"sources-man-city-may-not-keep-kevin-de-bruyne-and-this-is-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/sources-man-city-may-not-keep-kevin-de-bruyne-and-this-is-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Man City may not keep Kevin De Bruyne – and this is why"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kevin De Bruyne may not be offered a contract renewal at Man City if his injury record worsens, sources have told Football Insider<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Football Insider <\/strong>revealed on Friday (20 October) that the 31-year-old remains happy at City as his mega-money contract runs down.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

De Bruyne’s deal is set to expire in June 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A well-placed source has told\u00a0Football Insider\u00a0<\/strong>there is \u201cno urgency\u201d to sit down and discuss a renewal – with talks likely to take place in around 12 months’ time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is likely to be a willingness from both parties to iron out a new deal as things stand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, it is believed there are concerns about the increasing number of injury problems De Bruyne is suffering in recent seasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

De Bruyne is currently out of action with a serious hamstring injury he sustained on the opening day of the Premier League season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Belgium international is expected to be out until the new year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He admitted<\/a> he had played through the issue for the last two months of the 2022-23 campaign, which ended in Man City winning the treble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

De Bruyne made 49 total appearances last term, notching 10 goals and 31 assists in a stellar season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ex-Wolfsburg star has been at the Etihad Stadium since joining for a\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0\u00a354million in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In that time he has managed 96 goals and 153 assists in 358 games for the club, winning five Premier League titles in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other news, Newcastle plot new swoop for Man City star.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kevin De Bruyne may not be offered a contract renewal at Man City if his injury record worsens, sources have told Football Insider. Football Insider revealed on Friday (20 October) that the 31-year-old remains happy at City as his mega-money contract runs down. De Bruyne’s deal is set to expire in June 2025. A well-placed …<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":532318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverart":"\"\"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","_grv_disable_ads":false,"grv_featured_categories":""},"categories":[7,4,612],"tags":[13],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532319,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532316\/revisions\/532319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}