Surgery already planned
Shock diagnosis: City star is threatened with a long break
January 5, 2026 – 9:40 p.mReading time: 1 min.
He is one of the top performers in Manchester City’s defense. But now Josko Gvardiol will not be available to coach Pep Guardiola’s team for the time being.
The top English football club Manchester City will probably have to do without their regular central defender Josko Gvardiol for a long time. As the second-placed team in the Premier League confirmed on Monday evening, the former Leipzig Bundesliga professional broke his right tibia. Gvardiol (23) will undergo an operation later this week.
The injury occurred in the second half of the Premier League top game on Sunday against Chelsea (1-1). The Skyblues have not yet given any precise information about the exact duration of the absence of the Croatian international, for whom City had transferred 90 million euros to Leipzig in the summer of 2023; the “investigations into the exact severity of the injury and the prognosis” were still ongoing.