EXCLUSIVE: Ilkay Gundogan, Phil Foden and John Stones will NOT travel with the rest of the Man City squad for the US pre-season tour… instead with a trio to join the U23 squad as they prepare for the new season
- Ilkay Gundogan, Phil Foden and John Stones will be absent from Manchester City’s US tour
- City were scheduled to face Club America and Bayern Munich on the preseason tour
- Several Crystal Palace players have failed to meet Australia’s vaccination requirements
- Oleksandr Zinchenko will complete the move to Arsenal sports mail reported
Manchester City will be without key trio Ilkay GundoganPhil Foden and John Stones for the American leg of their pre-season preparations, Sportsmail can reveal.
It is understood that the trio did not travel with Pep Guardiola’s side to the United States where they meet Club America Texas on the Wednesday before the game Bayern Munich in Green Bay on Saturday, in news that will be a blow to the Premier League champions.
Instead, the three absentees are to fly with City’s U23 players to another destination in Europe to continue their preparatory programme.
Premier League champions Manchester City will miss three key players on the pre-season tour
There is no confirmation as to the reasons why the three players are not traveling.
City aren’t the only club whose summer preparations have been hampered by missing players.
Crystal Palace have only taken 10 outfield players on their Singapore and Australia tours because some failed to meet ‘entry requirements’.
Patrick Vieira’s Crystal Palace could miss out on commercial bonuses due to vaccination delays
Chelsea duo Ngolo Kante and Ruben Loftus-Cheek were forced to miss the club’s tour of America due to their Covid vaccination status.
It remains to be seen if City will confirm the reasons why the three players did not make the trip.
Meanwhile, Oleksandr Zinchenko will complete a move to Arsenal – a move first announced by Sportsmail in May
Ngolo Kante and Ruben Loftus-Cheek missed Chelsea’s US tour due to COVIS vaccine status
