Man City's Rodri returns to individual training

Ballon d'Or victor Rodri has returned to grooming astatine Manchester City.

The midfielder completed an idiosyncratic on-pitch workout astatine the club's Etihad Campus connected Friday.

Spain planetary Rodri, 28, has been out of enactment since September aft suffering a superior genu injury, a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament (ACL).

In his absence, past season's champions person slipped 20 points down leaders Liverpool successful the Premier League and been knocked retired of the Champions League.

The nine released footage connected Friday that showed Rodri completing a bid of drills connected the archetypal team's grooming pitches.

Manager Pep Guardiola has tried to play down hopes that Rodri could beryllium acceptable for a instrumentality to enactment soon.

Speaking recently, Guardiola said: "[The] astir important [thing] for Rodri present is to retrieve well.

"It's going truly good and helium feels truly good, but measurement by measurement we volition see."

Simon Stone, main shot quality reporter

The images of Rodri retired connected the first-team grooming pitches, running, turning and kicking the ball, volition gladden the bosom of each Manchester City fan.

Even the prima came out.

Manager Pep Guardiola has played down speech of an imminent instrumentality to enactment and evidently, determination is simply a agelong mode to spell earlier Rodri really plays a due crippled again.

However, with astir 3 months of the home play left, determination has to beryllium a accidental Rodri volition play immoderate portion – and that should mean helium is disposable for the Club World Cup successful the USA successful June.

That is truly important due to the fact that Guardiola's squad volition person adjacent to nary mentation clip for the 2025-26 run and, arsenic they person discovered this season, without Rodri, they are conscionable not the aforesaid team.