Former Liverpool striker urges Man City star to move to Anfield

Former Liverpool striker Stan Collymore has urged Kevin De Bruyne to leave Manchester City and has suggested that the midfielder should move to Anfield.

This comes after City were knocked out of the Champions League semi-finals after a late capitulation to Real Madrid on Wednesday night.

The European trophy is the one most desired by the Citizens’ hierarchy, fans, and players, and after missing out on it again, and in such embarrassing fashion, Collymore believes that De Bruyne will want to move to a club that has a better chance of lifting the coveted cup.

‘I can’t help wondering if it has crossed his [De Bruyne’s] mind that it might be time for a change,’ Collymore told Mirror Sport.

‘As a player, you know when you walk off the pitch whether or not you have had the impact you wanted to have on a game.

‘And after City’s Champions League exit, I’m sure De Bruyne will have been looking around thinking, “Are other people as good as I am? Will they help get me to where I need to be? Do I need to go to a club which is a routine winning machine?”

‘His effectiveness in the biggest one-off games for club and country is actually very poor and maybe it’s time for him to go to a Liverpool, Real Madrid, Barcelona or Bayern Munich, a club, or more importantly organisation, that has that winning mentality which gets the best out of him.’

De Bruyne joined City in 2015 and has so far won three Premier League titles, the FA Cup and five League Cups, establishing himself as one of, if not the best, players in the world.

City reached the final of last year’s Champions League, losing 1-0 to Chelsea, but this latest setback will have seriously hurt the morale of the players and manager Pep Guardiola.

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