Man City exciting winger Carlos Borges reveals target after serious injury

Manchester City's academy had a disastrous start to their pre-season when they were forced to abandon a Loughborough training camp following a Covid outbreak and, after trying to continue at the club training ground, ended up shutting part of the City Football Academy ahead of Pep Guardiola's return. Already short of the bulk of his squad owing to Euro 2020 involvement, the City boss could not try out all of the young talent he wanted to because they were forced to isolate.

But if it was a frustrating few weeks for many at the academy, for young winger Carlos Borges it cost him more than half of his season. The 18-year-old suffered a broken metatarsal on the training camp - the painful injury made famous to the nation through David Beckham and Michael Owen ahead of failed World Cup attempts - that stopped his hopes of kicking on from a successful year with the Under-18s that included 13 goals and 19 assists from 22 games that included a goal and an assist in the national final against Fulham.

Any hopes of moving up to the Under-23s and testing himself at a new level had to be shelved, with Borges struggling even when he returned to the pitch as he battled back from the first major setback of his promising career. An injury that took seconds to happen took seven months to recover from.

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"I was out for four months, I did my metatarsal so it was tough," he told M.E.N Sport. "It was unfortunate, but I had to get back on my feet and get back to work again. It was my first serious injury so at first it wasn't easy because I just wanted to get back to playing but I had the support of my family which made it easier. I put in the work and