At his best on the pitch, virtually everything is channelled through him. Often he will start a move by winning the ball and running with it in the same movement. Though he plays in the centre, he sets up goals by overlapping on the wing to put in crosses of such pace, swerve and accuracy that they are impossible to defend. And while goal-scoring isn’t his main thing (he prefers to assist), last season, when he scored four goals against Wolves, commentator Alistair Mann quivered: “Kevin, stop it! I’m running out of superlatives for you!” Jamie Carragher predicts it will be a 'toss-up' between Anthony Gordon and Cole Palmer to make England's Euro 2024 squad after their blistering starts to the season After leaving the pitch in the 36th minute of Manchester City's Champions League final victory over Inter on Saturday, it has now been revealed that midfielder Kevin de Bruyne's injury is actually a hamstring tear, per The Telegraph. De Bruyne had been playing with a hamstring tear for the past two months while City chased Arsenal for the league title while also participating in Champions League. But against Inter, that hamstring finally snapped causing de Bruyne to need to be replaced by Phil Foden in the clash. I ask if he is planning for life after playing? She looks at him, curious to hear the answer: “He gets annoyed when I ask about it. ‘I’m still playing!’” England's footballers do their own Great British Bake Off but can you figure out which Three Lions legends their gingerbread men are meant to look like?

Fast forward a few years for another classic tale: De Bruyne is on the verge of the first team at rival Belgian club Genk, living there with a foster family during the week, when they decide, two years in, that they don’t want him to live with them any more because he doesn’t fit in; he’s too quiet. Finally, there is the time, aged just 20, when he gives a half-time interview ripping into his Genk teammates for shirking: “I’m ashamed of them. I suggest that those who don’t have a desire to play just leave,” he says at the time. Hamilton is banned from heading to the casinos ahead of the Las Vegas Grand Prix... with Mercedes boss Wolff urging his team to stay focused Terry Venables is gone but not forgotten in Spain, Xavi is under serious pressure at Barcelona ahead of a huge week... and Jude Bellingham scores again! 10 THINGS WE LEARNED IN LALIGA All I can do is to tell my players the reality in good and bad moments,” he said. “I have more experience than them. Not at playing football, but at analysing what happens, I’m better than them. I’m the only person to tell them the truth. Put everyone in the team individually in front of their own mirrors to look at themselves. Sometimes not saying anything, they see my face, they know exactly the situation.”

I am fully able to do what I need to do, but I feel the difference compared with eight years ago. I need more treatment, more rest.”

The WHO recommends that you clean hands with alcohol-based hand rub or soap and water before putting on a mask. What was he trying to do?': Baffled fans question why Kai Havertz shielded the ball out of play for a throw-in immediately after he controlled it Victor Osimhen is 'coming to Chelsea next season' claims John Obi Mikel as the Blues legend tells the Napoli striker he is going to 'broker that deal' On the way out, I tell him that at away matches my daughter Maya and I get into the ground early when it’s almost empty and shout for waves from the players when they come out to warm up. Nearly all have given us waves, but never De Bruyne. You’re so intensely focused? “I think so, yes. I’m very different on the pitch to when I’m here. Once I’m playing football it’s a different zone. Then when I’ve finished, the game is done.”

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If you cannot find the Celebrity Photo Face you require please call us 01751 432513as we have over 8000 differents ready to send out.Ex-Liverpool keeper Kirkland reveals he was 'taking the equivalent of six shots of heroin a day' and 'should have died' from addiction to a pill that's to be banned I ask about the famous stories. Did you really cling to the goalpost and refuse to budge? “I think the stories are a bit made up.” So it’s not true? “I don’t remember it. It could be true!” Does it sound like him ? He grins. “I was a little bit stubborn, yeah. I let most things go, but when I do say something I am outspoken. I know now when you speak as a teenager or a kid to an adult with an opinion, people don’t like it … even if it’s true.” Burnley boss Vincent Kompany added: "I hope he [De Bruyne] is going to be fine. What a player he is." Time for a real 'international break'! Stars jet off on holiday with no Premier League games for two weeks... as Loris Karius and partner head for Dubai Jamie Carragher predicts it will be a 'toss-up' between Anthony Gordon and Cole Palmer to make England's...

Big congratulations to the club, he is signed for the next years, he is a young talented player, I’m very pleased he decided to come and join us,” Guardiola said. I’m more open-minded to life,” De Bruyne says. “When I was younger, it was just football. Now I have a family, life is different.” In fact, he says, it’s remarkably similar to many other working people – he drops the kids off on his way to work, trains, comes home, family meal with the kids, helps with the homework, watches telly. Because I’m a foreigner living here, I’m still OK. When you’re an English player, the attention flows from everywhere Chelsea 'are plotting one-in one-out policy for the January transfer window' in bid to avoid a bloated...He shined for the club in the 2010-2011 season where he took his team to the Belgian Championship victory, scoring 5 goals and 16 assists in the 32 games he played. Man United's Diogo Dalot and fiancee announce birth of their daughter on social media - after defender was released from Portugal's squad But he could simply retire, live a life of luxury, make up for lost time on the self-indulgence and dossing front.