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Pep Guardiola: 'Benjamin Mendy out for next two or three weeks'

Guardiola: 'Mendy out for several weeks'
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New Manchester City signing Benjamin Mendy is likely to miss the start of the 2017-18 Premier League season with a thigh injury, Pep Guardiola confirms.

New Manchester City signing Benjamin Mendy will miss the start of the 2017-18 Premier League season with a thigh injury, Pep Guardiola has revealed.

The 23-year-old did not feature in the Citizens' 4-1 pre-season victory over Real Madrid in Los Angeles despite passing a medical and completing a £49.2m move from AS Monaco on Monday.

Guardiola confirmed that the defender has been nursing the injury for eight months and is doubtful for City's league opener away at Brighton & Hove Albion on August 12.

"Unfortunately he is a little bit injured and is not ready for the next two or three weeks," the Spaniard told reporters in Los Angeles.

"We have a guy for the next five or six years, who is physically strong. He is also a funny guy who is going to make a good locker room environment.

"We are going to try to help make him comfortable – it is not easy to move on from one club to another one, and we are so satisfied he decided to come with us."

Fellow summer signing Danilo was deployed as a left wing-back at the LA Coliseum and is expected to deputise for Mendy in the coming weeks.

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