Kevin De Bruyne believes Phil Foden will follow Erling Haaland into the Ten More Years club at Manchester City. Foden has already been at City for 20 years after being scouted aged four, and manager Pep Guardiola hopes he will become a one-club legend by staying at the Etihad for his whole career. After the England midfielder took his purple patch to six goals in as many Premier League games, De Bruyne warned City’s top-four rivals: “He’s getting back to what he’s good at.”.
And Foden’s return to form, after a sluggish first half of the season with no league goals until December 21, is the clearest sign yet that City’s pre-Christmas crisis is over and the Blue Moon is rising again. Goal machine Haaland’s monster nine-and-a-half year contract worth £260million was a huge statement of intent - and now all eyes are on City’s other big-hitters to see if they will follow suit.
De Bruyne said: “I think Phil will always score goals. He's that kind of player who's really good around the box and he knows when to come into it. Obviously we all had a tough period for a certain time, but he's scored a lot of goals lately, so he's getting back to what he's good at and that's important for us.”.
Will Foden answer Guardiola’s prayers and become a one-club player? “I cannot decide for him,” said De Bruyne, who is approaching 10 years on the City payroll and has won 14 major trophies with the club including six titles. “Everybody's different, and he's already been here so long, but to play at a top club like this makes it easier to stay. With all due respect, I come from Belgium and I wanted to go higher. I had to change my top, so for him it's probably easier to stay if you can play for a top team and have good players all around you.
