Manchester City are getting ready to begin contract talks with Kevin De Bruyne.
The fit-again Belgium ace, 32, has 18 months left on his present £400,000-a-week deal on the Etihad. And which means the membership wish to deal with the scenario now moderately than enable it to pull on and danger being unresolved on the finish of the season.
That would solely improve the inevitable curiosity in City skipper De Bruyne – with rival golf equipment sensing a possible cut price coming in the marketplace.
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That is why negotiations on extending his keep are as a result of start in Abu Dhabi, the place Pep Guardiola’s Treble winners are heading this week for a mini mid-season break. De Bruyne is lastly again in motion after lacking the primary half of the season due to a critical recurrence of a long-running calf damage.
His look final week as substitute within the FA Cup third spherical rout of Huddersfield was his first for the reason that opening day of the marketing campaign when he broke down at Burnley.
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De Bruyne, so long as he’s wholesome, is for certain to be an integral a part of City’s on-going cost for one more big trophy haul, together with an unprecedented fourth Premier League title on the bounce.
Currently the membership’s highest earner, the previous Chelsea and Wolfsburg playmaker, a £55m purchase in July 2015, can anticipate related monetary phrases with an extra two years on the desk.
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De Bruyne is occurring 9 years in Manchester the place he is change into a contemporary legend of the membership and has been on the centre of the membership’s appreciable success which has included 5 Premier League titles, 5 EFL Cup’s and their maiden Champions League trophy final season.
The Belgian celebrity can also be 4 targets away from scoring a ton for the Citizens – a milestone he’ll certainly wish to hit this season.