De Bruyne is a key player obviusly but i think Manchester City can sub him very well, in fact i really think this injury helped Manchester City thinking in the future of the team. Now they know they can play very good without him, so we can some news in the next summer transfers window.
Manchester City was not competitive due to the absence of key players, until they appointed Pep Guardiola in 2016/2017 EPL campaign, Pep is widely recognized as aggressive coach that has full ambition for the team to become great. He doesn't lack the full tendency but always curious about the performance of his team, ensuring for placing alternatives options in situations were the intended primary ones failed. Kelvin De Bruyne is injured and has not been with Manchester City for months now, probably might return in January because he's gradually making some vital recoveries, most football lovers can't wait for Kelvin De Bruyne to start games on the pitch for the Citizens.
Rodri may be coming back in upcoming weeks but manchester city needs to play without him for serveral weeks started from the match against arsenal. Losing him gave very big impact to the manchester city. I never expected that if rodri will be doing serious foul against nottingham forest.
Im not mentioning de bruyne caused by he will out for months, rodri will become the only hope owned by manchester city. His power really needed by the club at this moment. Losing him gave very big impact to the performance of manchester city.
I hope de bruyn will be back later but pep shall have focused into the how to build a proper attack without rodri and kdb. Many people have criticized how manchester city is declining so hard after the club was losing haaland and rodri.
In fact, these players are always contributing a lot in any season under city's shirt. No doubt if losing them all made great impact to the manchester city.
Pep has been lining up some players from another club to be recruited as backup once they will be out. Pep needs to make sure the replacement will have same quality as them. That's why dani olmo already targeted by pep at this moment.
There are also many clubs aiming to get him from leipzig. I hope pep will do something to save city.