Rayan Cherki faces two months on the sidelines after suffering an injury, ruling him out of France’s upcoming World Cup qualifiers.<\/p>\n
Cherki was absent for Manchester City’s 2-1 loss to Brighton in the Premier League on Sunday due to the injury.<\/p>\n
Pep Guardiola confirmed in a post-match interview that the Frenchman faced “seven or eight weeks”\u00a0on the sidelines, and as such will be expected to return in early November.<\/p>\n
According to France’s official X account, Cherki has sustained a “quadriceps tear”\u00a0and has dropped out of Didier Deschamps’\u00a0squad for the matches against Ukraine and Iceland.<\/p>\n
Liverpool forward Hugo Ekitike, who has netted three goals since his big-money move to the Premier League champions, has received a maiden call-up to the national team.<\/p>\n
Cherki signed for City in June for an initial fee of \u00a330.5m from Lyon and netted during their run to the last 16 of the Club World Cup.<\/p>\n
He also scored on his Premier League debut, a 4-0 rout against Wolves, before starting the loss to Tottenham last weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rayan Cherki faces two months on the sidelines after suffering an injury, ruling him out of France’s upcoming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-387946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}