Dubai camps and training with Manchester United rivals - how Man City players have prepared for pre-season return

16.07.2023 - 14:55 manchestereveningnews.co.uk

After an 11-month season, Manchester City players have enjoyed a well-earned month off to celebrate winning the treble at the end of a gruelling campaign.

Jack Grealish went to Las Vegas and Ibiza, Aymeric Laporte and Bernardo Silva got married to their partners in lavish ceremonies, and Ederson went to Abu Dhabi on a family holiday.

Towards the end of the summer, City teammates Kevin De Bruyne and Nathan Ake went away on a trip with Ake's Netherlands teammate Virgil Van Dijk.

With players returning to the City Football Academy on Monday ahead of the pre-season tour to Japan and South Korea later in the week, some members of the squad have been getting some work in to get back up to speed ahead of the fitness tests they will go through this week.

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