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Manchester City star Kevin De Bruyne has joined up with Belgium’s squad ahead of their Nations League clash with Iceland on Tuesday.
De Bruyne was absent from as the Red Devils started their Nations League Group A2 campaign with a 2-0 win over Denmark.
The 29-year-old had been granted leave to be with his wife Michele for the birth of their third child. However, coach Roberto Martinez will have the playmaker available when Belgium face Iceland in Brussels.
Michy Batshuayi, meanwhile, has also joined the group after the Chelsea forward isolated for 14 days due to the possibility that he may have contracted coronavirus.
One player Belgium will be without on Tuesday is Yannick Carrasco, who has left the squad.
Meanwhile, Jack Grealish needs to leave his role as “school captain” at Aston Villa in order to become an England regular, says Paul Merson, with a player who has been heavily linked with Manchester United urged to push for a move elsewhere.
Interest from Old Trafford in the 24-year-old playmaker may have ended on the back of the Red Devils’ capture of Netherlands international Donny van de Beek.
Various other landing spots have, however, been mooted for Grealish as his obvious ability starts to catch the eye of those in a wider transfer market.—AFP
