Man City are well-prepared to deal with the worst Kyle Walker outcome in Champions League final

Like the one ominous grey cloud on an otherwise sunny day, Kyle Walker's potential injury is the only dampener to Manchester City's Champions League final preparations.

Pep Guardiola had the increasingly rare treat of having a fully fit squad to choose from for Saturday's FA Cup triumph over Manchester United but those days tend to be few and far between. It hardly seems like a week goes by when one member of the City squad doesn't pick up a knock or niggle or in the case of Phil Foden an exploding appendix.

Nathan Ake, Jack Grealish, Kevin De Bruyne, Ruben Dias and Kevin De Bruyne were all dealing with fatigue and pain as the season reached its climax and the latest to suffer the impact of a gruelling campaign is Walker. The defender missed open training on Tuesday ahead of Saturday's final with Inter to send shivers down many a spine.

"He had a disturbance in his back," Guardiola said. "Yesterday he was not good. Today he was a little bit better. We didn't want to take a risk and we will see in the next days."

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Instead of taking to the grass, Walker conducted media duties which is a good sign he will be available for Saturday and the defender himself was much more relaxed about his situation. "I’m fine, I’m just getting old," he told Sky Sports News. "I’m completely fine, it’s just an extra day of recovery.

"I’ve played a lot of minutes over the last number of weeks so the manager said, ‘Just stay inside and come Saturday you will be raring to go’.

"I’m fine, the minutes that I’ve played when everyone else was injured, I was there digging my heels in and getting through it. I won’t be missing the Champions League final for anything."

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