City really needs someone like rodri or KDB. The club can't make a proper attack without having someone who is playing differently as a midfielder. KDB has always known when he must be assisting his team mate to scoring the goals.
KDB is now injury and manchester city doesn't have someone who can play as good as him. Missing rodri is now also one of a disaster for manchester city at this moment. It's caused by city has no equal replacement for de brune and rodri.
It will become pep's task to find someone who can play as good as them. The club needs to hope rodri will comeback from his suspension as soon as possible.
De Bruyne is a unique player, finding one like him will be a very difficult task. Guardiola fears that De Bruyne will not be able to return to the game until 2024, this is of course a big loss for City, but at the beginning of the season his absence was not as noticeable as it is now in recent games. Guardiola always comes up with something, but now the situation is really difficult, Gundogan could have backed up before, but now he is in Barcelona...