Pep Guardiola has been heartened to see Aymeric Laporte s return to full training but urged patience over the defender s first-team comeback.
Manchester City have been without Laporte since August, when he suffered a knee injury against Brighton and Hove Albion.
The France centre-back, who joined from Athletic Bilbao in January 2018, required surgery but is coming to the end of his recovery.
He s training every day, he feels good after training and the day after he feels good, that is good news, Guardiola said ahead of City s trip to Aston Villa on Sunday.
I don t know when he ll be ready to play some games. He needs a little bit more time but he moves really well.
The operation was good. We wait for the doctors to say he can start to p…