City players cut short World Cup break - Guardiola

Manchester City's World Cup players have decided to return to training early and help aid manager Pep Guardiola's attempt to defend the Premier League title.

The English champions had 16 players playing in Russia with the likes of Kevin De Bruyne, Vincent Kompany, John Stones, Kyle Walker , Fabian Delph, Raheem Sterling not due back until next weekend.

All players were given three weeks off from the moment their involvement in the tournament ended.

But Guardiola revealed that only two of his squad will not be available for the Community Shield season opener against Chelsea on August 5.

Guardiola, speaking ahead of City's final match of the US tour against Bayern Munich in Miami today, said: "Most of them are coming back. We have just four or five days to prepare for the first final (Community Shield) so we have to adapt.

"Some of them are coming back before, some are coming back after the final.

"We need players for the final but if they are not coming back we'll play with the guys who are here.

"It is not an ideal situation, we prefer to be together but it is the same for Niko Kovac (Bayern manager) or for the other managers - the calendar is the calendar so we have to adapt."
"It's so expensive and we spent a lot last year because we had an old squad. Maybe one (will come in), maybe not."