Nobody knows with any certainty whether there will actually be a Premier League to return to, but Leroy Sane's situation is more intriguing than most at Manchester City.
The German winger, sidelined since the Community Shield win over Liverpool in August, has been training with the first-team squad since January but Pep Guardiola has been insistent that he has not yet been ready for matches. "He’s training.
He’s not injured," he said before the Arsenal game that was subsequently postponed. "We are going to decide but he was ready weeks ago." The feeling has been that Sane needed minutes to recover but Real Madrid at home is hardly the kind of stage to be thrown onto for your first match in eight months.
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