Pep Guardiola is worried his Manchester City squad is not deep enough to cope with the gruelling winter fixture schedule.
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Rodri and Aleks Zinchenko are the latest to be ruled out with injury, joining long-term absentees Aymeric Laporte and Leroy Sane.
As well as those four, a further seven players have missed at least one game in the season with various problems and Sergio Aguero has played with a problem.
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"When I'm thinking after the international break - November, December, January, February - I'm a little bit concerned because in a few positions we don't have enough players," (pep guardiola).
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I would prefer all the players had no injuries but I have to provide solution, I said when Laporte happened that it is what it is. We can't start complaining, 'oh what bad luck'.
Man-City do have the option to spend in the January transfer window.
They failed to find a centre-back for the right price in summer, although did bring Angelino back from PSV Eindhoven and buy Joao Cancelo for £60m - £26m more than they sold Danilo to Juventus for.
Guardiola has previously said that he does not think the club will spend in the New Year.
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He repeated that on Friday, although his reasoning was that he hadn't been presented with a list of targets from the house,I don't think we are going to buy in the January window.
The house didn't introduce me to the players they thought could help us so without that it's not going to happen," he said.
"Our need is not just for six months it's for a long time and the important players will not be sold. We are going to stay all the season, I think, with all the players we have this season..
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