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A final word from Manchester City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne on the mental struggles he has had to overcome while recovering from his recent injury: "This has been the most frustrating injury. When I was out for five or six months, I knew that was the case. This time, I didn't know how long it would take to get better. I'm doing a lot of stuff to do that. I was happy that against Tottenham, I could see something different to the previous two games I came on."

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More from Kevin De Bruyne on whether he expects the Manchester City players to have a crisis meeting: "There's always been a time where we meet, a crisis meeting or two every year. When there's a great season, that happens at some point. At this moment in time, we don't need another one. You accept that losing five times in a row is tough."

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Manchester City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne on his contract and whether Pep Guardiola's extension changes things: "It could help. Maybe it would help to have a conversation with Pep to speak about my future. There's an understanding, I know how he works."

On how long he thinks he can play at the top level: "I've no idea. I can only go based on what I know. When I came back, I feel good and as long as I do that, I feel happy, but I've got no idea how long that will stay."

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Manchester City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne on his recovery from injury: "I've basically trained everything. It was basically abdomen pain that was going around my groin, so I couldn't really shoot, I've been trying to get my power back.

"It's taken a long time, but on Friday it got better. I can't explain it. The last few days, it's been better. I'm hoping that goes upwards."

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Manchester City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne on whether he is expecting to open contract talks with the club: "I honestly don't know. At the start of the season, I knew talks would happen but then the thing [injury] happened in Brentford. It was meant to be a couple of days and then it was eight/nine weeks. I put it all to the side.

"I'm not too worried. I'm fine. I'm happy, I just want to play good football again and the future, we'll see.

"I only can really give you the answers, but I don't know. If there's no talks it will be my last year at the club, but I don't know.

"I had a conversation in the summer, but then I had the injury so I wasn't in the right frame of mind to talk about that. I need to be back on the pitch and be myself again. There's no rush, I don't feel uncomfortable, I'm not worried."

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Manchester City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne on the side's defensive problems: "If you give five chances against Tottenham, that's not that bad. They get two tap-ins. With the way we play, you have to accept there's more opportunity for teams to have a counter. At the moment, we're not dealing with this in a good way. We're always going to give a chance away. We're giving it away too many times. When we give a chance at goal, it's basically a goal."

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Manchester City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne on watching a number of games from the sidelines: "There's only so much you can control from the sides. It's not a nice feeling but it's fine.

"It seems like we're not really dealing with the moments when it goes bad. There's moments like the Tottenham game which we do really well. The main issue is both boxes. We're conceding too many goals. I don't think we played a bad game the other day but we lost 4-0."

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Kevin de Bruyne said "I honestly don't know" about my future at Manchester City.

He says he is concentrating on getting fit, but added: "If no talks come then this is my last year...I just want to play good football, then we will see."

More to follow.

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Manchester City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne on his recent injury problems - last season and during the current campaign: "I did what I did last year, I only lost one game last year, which was the FA Cup final, so I thought I did pretty good. After the Brentford game [14 September], I couldn't kick a ball, couldn't move freely, couldn't do what I do to play. I'm starting to feel better now. It's been a bit frustrating, but I'm better now so I'm happy about that."

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Manchester City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne on the club's poor run of form and whether the mood in the dressing room has been dark: "I wouldn't say dark, it's been a bit chaotic. I've seen so many people pass around the medical area, sport science, whose playing and not playing. There's been so many people playing who shouldn't have been playing.

"The games playing against Sporting, Brighton and Bournemouth was all over the place. Tottenham was more normal. I didn't see too much change, everyone is down about the five losses. You have to move on."

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We move quickly on from Pep Guardiola to Belgian playmaker Kevin de Bruyne, who says the club and players must move on from their five consecutive defeats.

He has also been speaking about his "frustrating" injury problems, saying at one point he could not kick a ball...

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A final word from Pep Guardiola on former Feyenoord manager Arne Slot, who is now at Liverpool: "He did very well and his results at Liverpool have shown that, he's proved the quality that he has."

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Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola on facing Feyenoord and his experiences of Dutch football: "It doesn't matter who we play because of the situation, it will be a tough game.

"You like to say football from Holland has influenced England too. Of course I respect Johan Cruyff, most of the football belongs in the soil of England, that's why we came to England to work, otherwise I'd work in Holland."

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Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola on the form: "Look at where we've come from. It's so difficult to defend the success we have had, that's why I'm so relaxed. That is why I want the commitment, the commitment, the commitment and the commitment. Just being ourselves isn't enough, we have to show commitment every day."

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Pep Guardiola on whether he has spoken to his players more during Manchester City's recent poor run: "Nine years here, I know them quite well. Sometimes I do, it depends on what I feel."

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More from Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola on what would keep Kevin De Bruyne at the club: "We don't stay here because we've done something special, we do things here because we keep on winning. That is what keeps us here."

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Pep Guardiola on Kevin De Bruyne's future at Manchester City: "I don't know. That is up to Kevin. Whether that is the end of the next one, or the next one, or the next one. Like David Silva, he will decide when is best for him and the team. He will not want to be in the position where he can't play every three days. When he's available, he has to play."

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Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola on what it will take to turn around the side's form and their chances of winning trophies: "Do you think we're ready to win the Premier League? No. We need to win one game. I want the players to perform well, in certain departments we need more focus. It will pass. It's going to rain tomorrow, life goes on."

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More from Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola on whether Kevin de Bruyne can get back to his best form after returning from injury: "He's fighting to come back to his best. He's not 26, 27, 28. His first game, the day before Spurs, he said it's the first day he didn't feel [unable to] perform. When he came back after five months, we had to play him for 15, 30, 45 minutes.

"When Kevin can train fully, he will give us something because he's unique. It would make no sense to see the opposite."

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Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola on how he's dealing with the team's poor run of form: "I learn from these situations, be calm. Sometimes I shout, but the next morning with a coffee, I'm saying why am I shouting, stay calm. It is quite normal after a game. What happens in the past makes an influence in our lives in the right moment.

"At the beginning of the season, we were first, we're still second. It's not about the results, right now, it is about the performance, which at the start of the season was really, really good, except the Bournemouth game.

"You can handle one or two players, but not four or five in key positions. Maybe not five in a row, but it should happen.

"You look at December and at the end of the season, whether you need to change things and be more solid, but these guys will do very, very good things."