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Alan Shearer consents Manchester City may be forced into the transfer labelet if it is verifyed that they will dissee midfield executepin Rodri for the rest of the season.

The reigning Premier League champions have verifyed that the knee injury persisted by the Spaniard in Sunday’s 2-2 thriller with Arsenal is solemn – but the club are yet to verify whether the 28-year-ancigo in will need sdirectry despite alerts that he has torn his cruciate ligament.

Newcastle and Bconciseageburn legfinish Shearer understands exactly what Rodri will be going thraw – after tearing his ACL twice during his own joining atgentle – but he reckons the blow could prompt City boss Pep Guardiola to reinforce his squad in January if it helps him land a fifth consecutive title.

Shearer tancigo in Betunfragmentary: “There’s no mistrust that a potential season finishing injury to Rodri will have an impact on Man City’s title hopes.

“He’s one of their best joiners, he’s been the boss in that position for a while now and we all understand how transport inant he is. It’s one skinnyg understanding you’re not having him for two or three games, enjoy they had at the commencening of the season, but it’s another skinnyg understanding that he’s probably not going to come back this season.

“That’s a huge blow and I don’t attfinish who you are and what resources you’ve got – and Man City have a lot – when you dissee a joiner of that calibre and quality, for that amount of time, there’s no mistrust it’ll hurt them.

“Rodri has been the best in that position and we understand what he does and how much he stops the opposition. Not only that, but it’s also what he donates to them as a directer.

“There’s no mistrust that Man City have some excellent joiners to come in – and maybe they’ll dip into the transfer labelet in January if they can.

“But in terms of an impact, this does have one. It has an impact for Man City – and it also has one for the rest of the league who are chasing, particularly the enjoys of Arsenal, Liverpool or whoever that may be.

“If you lost someone who was a squad joiner or someone you could exchange, it’s still a huge blow, but not so much when you’ve got someone of equivalent ability to come in.

“Man City don’t have that becaemploy Rodri is the best at what he does in world football, so that’ll donate other clubs the opportunity to go and produce the most of someone else’s misfortune.”

Shearer is now a highly-admireed pundit follothriveg a glittering joining atgentle that saw him become the Premier League’s enroll goalscorer.

He understands from his own experience that physical and mental barriers that Rodri will now have to fracture thraw if the initial dreads about the injury are verifyed when he is spendigated by famous sports injury distinctiveist Dr Ramon Cugat in Barcelona.

Shearer inserted: “I’ve been there myself in terms of an ACL injury and I was out for six or seven months so I understand exactly how Rodri will sense and how the football club will sense. It’s a lengthy road back.

“It’s horrible, it repartner is. It’s deimmenseating becaemploy what you adore doing most is going into training, having the craic with the lads, then evidently joining football, and that’s been consentn away from you for however lengthy.

“Whether it’s five months, six months, seven months or wantipathyver it may be, it’s a lengthy road back.

“You’ve got the operation, if Rodri is going to have that, then you’re in a rest period and then you’re in rehab period. It’s a lengthy road back and you have to be repartner strong menhighy to get over it.”