Manchester City’s squad has been somewhat depleted ahead of their game against West Ham United.
Manchester City take on West Ham United this weekend, but Pep Guardiola has been faced with a whole host of absentees in training.
After the 3-1 home win over Manchester United, City players headed off for international duty, which always leaves Guardiola will a threadbare squad to work with.
Sergio Aguero returned to training whilst Aymeric Laporte, David Silva, Fernandinho and Ilkay Gundogan were all present on Monday too as they aren’t away on international duty.
Yet with many others away and the likes of Kevin De Bruyne and Benjamin Mendy both out injured, Guardiola decided to bring some teenagers up to first-team training.
Brahim Diaz was training as speculation about his future goes on, but Guardiola also called up Eric Garcia, Tom Dele-Bashiru and Iker Pozo, with the trio spotted in training on Monday.
Defender Garcia, 17, was coming up through the Barcelona ranks before City lured him to the Etihad Stadium this past summer, with the Spanish centre back touted for a huge future.
Dele-Bashiru is a 19-year-old midfielder who was born in Manchester and has been in the City ranks since 2005, and having been spotted in training, he may be eyeing a bench role at West Ham with De Bruyne and Bernardo Silva injured.
Finally, 18-year-old anchor man Pozo was also seen, as he looks to make the step up having been signed from Real Madrid in 2016 – and whilst the trio may only have been filling in for absent internationals, Guardiola seemingly rates them highly enough to bring them into first-team training in what is surely a major boost to their confidence.
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