Bernardo Silva Will Leave Manchester City This Summer, Reveals Pep Lijnders

Pep Lijnders has revealed that Bernardo Silva will time off Manchester City successful nan summer, pinch nan adjunct head hoping nan skipper is fixed a fitting farewell.

The 31-year-old Silva, whose statement expires successful June, has been successful awesome shape this play but Lijnders stated it will beryllium his past for City.

The Dutchman said: “When he is not playing you will spot really he is missed and that’s 1 game. But each bully communicative comes to an end, and I dream he enjoys nan past months – location are only six weeks – and has a bully farewell. He deserves each that attraction arsenic well.”

Since joining City from Monaco successful July 2017 for £43.5m Silva has been a cardinal personnel of nan generational occurrence of Pep Guardiola’s team, winning six Premier League titles, 2 FA Cups, 5 League Cups, nan Champions League and 2 Fifa Club World Cups. He was made nan skipper for this season by Guardiola.

Lijnders was formerly astatine Liverpool arsenic nan adjunct to Jürgen Klopp earlier he moved to City successful nan adjacent season. The Dutchman said of Silva: “I didn’t for illustration him before. Now I emotion him. The measurement he feels nan game, what’s needed. There’s not galore for illustration him – erstwhile to drop, erstwhile to make a move 20 metres distant from Rodri.

“You ne'er switch a subordinate pinch nan aforesaid benignant of subordinate because they don’t exist. Bernardo Silva is unique. The measurement he controls games, nan measurement he moves, nan measurement he receives, nan measurement he leads, nan measurement he sees nan solutions. All these things.

“He feels nan task really to play well, to make nan squad play well. These are nan type of players, erstwhile they are not playing, you will consciousness it. He is so, truthful good. So you ne'er hunt for a replacement for 1 type of player.

“You hunt for what is needed to turn pinch nan squad and personification who tin fresh successful nan first XI. And past you hope, pinch our academy, pinch nan young players we already brought that they tin make that measurement arsenic good successful nan midfield positions.”

Silva, who has spoken antecedently of wishing to extremity his profession astatine Benfica, will go a free supplier successful nan summer. Barcelona clasp an liking successful signing him. Neither nan subordinate nor City person yet made an charismatic announcement astir his future.