‘Don’t even want to think of that day’, ‘He’s irreplaceable’ – Man City fans react as Pep Guardiola Speaks On Kevin De Bruyne’s Future

Kevin De Bruyne is one of the world’s greatest players, and arguably the best in Manchester City’s history. Pep Guardiola on Friday spoke about the player’s future.

Guardiola would not get drawn into calling the Belgian irreplaceable, but if there was ever a player who was, it’s Kevin De Bruyne.

At 31, it will be interesting to see how many more years at top level he has. Speaking about De Bruyne’s future on Friday, Pep Guardiola had this to say:

“It is a question for him. He has 3 years left. What I can say is he is miles ahead of last season in this period. Much better. I don’t feel he will retire soon – that is my feeling. He likes it, he is enjoying it and playing at a high level.”

The question may not be whether Kevin De Bruyne will join another top-level club, but more so how much longer he feels he can play top-level football.

The Belgian looks to be in the peak of his powers and is showing no signs of slowing down at the moment. Guardiola believes ‘it will be so difficult’ to replace De Bruyne.

“It’ll be so difficult. Not impossible, not easy. The team is most important, but there are players who can do many things, not easy. But Txiki, scouting have to work on that, monitor players, this thing will happen…”

These Guardiola’s comments were shared on Twitter by City Xtra and it attracted plenty of attention from the club’s supporters.

“No way 🙄. I don’t even want to think of that day”
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“It’s not time to start talking about this”
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“He’s irreplaceable”
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“Sometimes this is something i completely forget that Kevin is 31 years so much harder to process losing him as a player for my club.”
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“I don’t even wanna think about that”
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“Way too early to be thinking of a KDB replacement. Please, let’s focus on the season ahead”
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“Honestly replacing KDB is like replacing Messi, those generational players only come once in a while and just like Barcelona we were lucky to have kdb. Best we can do is create a system that has us coping without his genius but no player can replace his genius”
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