Kevin De Bruyne's will to win made him Man City's best ever player - Fulham trip is a fitting finale

Kevin De Bruyne can cut open defences at will but he's always been pretty blunt with his opinion.

The Manchester City legend said goodbye to the Etihad on Tuesday night on an evening packed full of emotion. It's perhaps fitting that the historical home of Fulham could provide his last moments in blue for De Bruyne will go down in history.

A modern day great, perhaps City's greatest ever, and a talent so irreplaceable, so incredible and so good that we might never see his like again.

He makes the difficult look gracefully simple on the pitch and is straightforward on the complex off it. He didn't shy away from interviews after the FA Cup final defeat to Crystal Palace and, as he always is, was honest in his views. He's always said what he thinks.

De Bruyne made light of his infamous 'let me talk' row with David Silva in a 2017 Champions League match during his speech after the midweek win over Bournemouth. But the Belgian has always been a straight shooter.

As a teenager he stepped up to train with Genk for the first time. He wasn't overly impressed with what he saw. 'Come on, you need to run more. Please let's be better' he screamed at incredulous senior team-mates.

"He always wanted perfection. And he didn't care who he had to shout at to get it," recalls former Genk skipper David Hubert of that training session when a 17-year-old De Bruyne announced himself.

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De Bruyne made his debut a few short months later and by then it was clear to all at Genk that