Pep can forget De Bruyne, releasing a 17-year auxiliary help of Man City

2025 should be a year of change in mass in Manchester City.

In the transfer market, Sky Blues actively did his team younger, spending around £ 180 million On Jumi Bah (18), Nico González (23), Abdukodir Khusanov (21), Vitor Reis (19) and Omar MarmoushA light exception at the age of 26.

In the meantime, a 34-year-old captain Kyle Walker Ac Milan was allowed to go to AC Milan, with a few more stables of Man City in 30, also forecast in the summer.

So, like Pep Guardiola Omounts the huge reconfiguration of their team, do the citizens of the teenager have, who break him at the level of young people, are ready to break on the scene of the first team?

The fall of Kevin de Bruyne in Manchester City

Former Liverpool and Tottenham midfielder Jamie Redknapp believes Kevin de Bruyne be ‘to be’ Premier leagueThe largest is ever a midfielder ‘while, similar lines, James Westwood of naked It indicates ‘the best playmaker for graceful modern English football’.

Well, since arriving from Wolfsburg For a reported fee of £ 54 million 2015 Belgian made 411 performance For citizens, scoring 106 goals and providing 174 assists, winning six Premier League titles, two FA Cups, Five EFL Cup and Champions League.

His sum 118 means that in the second place In the Premier League for all the time of assistance, 44 Adrift Ryan Giggs’ of all time records, playing 353 less matches in the competition.

However, as he noted Richard Martin from a goalThe 33-year-old “achieved the decay of the terminal” and “no longer cut for a great time”, underlined by the fact that she is no longer a guaranteed starter in big matches, the fact Sam Lee from athletics Notes would be ‘unimaginable’ in the past.

So, let’s compare De Bruyne’s statistics of the season in the season.

As the drawing table, De Bruyne accumulated at least 3,000 minutes during seven of his first eight seasons in Manchester City, campaign 2018/19, the only exception, annually disturbed by Ligament injury in the left knee.

However, this season and last, the Belgian records have diminished significantly, although he was still able to achieve a whopping 18 assists last year, up to just seven this time, which would be his The lowest sum of 2009/10When he played for Genk as a teenager.

Jeff Rueter from athletics Reports that MLS Expansion Club San Diego FC is very interested in signing De Bruyne to freedom this summer, which is a move that Joe Lowery from the Total Soccer Show Marks are increasingly likely that it will happen.

Guardiola has described de bruyne as “One of the best players in the history of Man City,” undergoing a rather large void whether it should leave, but is there a Sky Blues ready -made replacement that currently attracts an eye at the Academy level?

Next Wonderkid Man City could replace De Bruyne

They are a great chance that you have never heard of the divine mukas, but we are very sure that this will change in the near future.

The 17-year-old joined Manchester City in 2023 from West Ham United, and his appearances at the level of young people earned rave reviews.

Analyst Ben Mattinson indicates a “serious talent” midfielder while Scout Gianni Bellasi He believes that he has “excellent spatial consciousness”, “calm under pressure” and “manages” as number ten, but is versatile enough to play anywhere over the middle or line forward.

So, we evaluate the statistics of a teenager.

As the table shows below, Mukas is something that is an assist, hence the comparison with De Bruyne, in which he plays at the U18 Premier League level; Only five players They scored more goals than him in that division this season, one of which is a teammate Reigan Hesky, son of Emile, Whom we wrote about last month.

This noted that Mukas gave opportunities at higher levels, which are expected to appear in Man City’s UEFA Youth League quarterfinals against Az Alkmaar next month, turning his video while Sky Blues threw out Midtjylland on penalties in an earlier circle.

So, the 17-year-old may not be ready just that the regular initiator of the first team of citizens, but it certainly shows the signs that he could be the long-term heir to De Bruyne’s throne.