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Manchester City’s squad has now safely landed in Nanjing where they will continue their Asia summer tour of 2019.
Pep Guardiola named a 27-man travelling party that will compete in their pre-season exhibition matches. They have already kicked things off against familiar opposition in West Ham United in the Premier League Asia Trophy opener at the Nanjing Olympic Sports Center.
But as his team is already gearing up for their first summer challenges, Benjamin Mendy has been excluded from the list and is doing his training sessions by himself.
Recently, he took to Instagram to post a snap of one of his exercises and it was soon met with some banter from his friends.
The Frenchman captioned it as “playa not for fun” and then followed it up with some emojis. Samuel Umtiti, his compatriot and teammate from the national team, was having none of it.
He immediately called Mendy out for choosing to train in a place where there’s a lot of people so he would have an audience to gloat. He asked him if he really couldn’t find a place where there was fewer people around and was seemingly laughing pretty hard because of it.
Of course, this was all a part of some friendly banter with no ill intentions.
Mendy is looking to start the 2019/20 Premier League season strong and fit after going through some unlucky injury spells in the previous campaign.
