Kevin De Bruyne has hailed his Manchester City teammate Bernando Silva, joking he can play about 19 different positions.
The Belgian was filming a video with the club’s media team about players who have assisted him during his time at City.
De Bruyne was shown several clips of goals he has scored for the club.
His challenge was to recall which player gave him the ball before scoring, with City’s social media team hiding the player’s identity as the clip played.
De Bruyne has a brilliant memory, as he was able to guess the player to assist him for all 10 clips he was shown.
One of the clips he was shown was from the game with Wolves last season at Molineux.
That night, De Bruyne put in one of his greatest ever performances in a City shirt, scoring four goals for the visitors – three of which came with his left foot.
His opening goal was assisted by Bernardo, who slipped him in down the left side of the penalty area. De Bruyne stuck first time across Jose Sa into the bottom far corner.
It was a brilliant strike, made possible by the Portuguese maestro’s vision.
De Bruyne was told that that was one of six assists Bernardo has made for him during his time with City, and on the 28-year-old he said: “Bernardo is so smart, isn’t he? His understand of the football game is unbelievable. He plays about 19 different positions, even though there’s only 11 available so. Yeah, he’s so, so good.”
Bernardo’s future is still up in the air at the moment.
He’s had another fine season at the Etihad. But speculation remains about his future, with Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona having both been linked.
Bernardo Silva is a world-class player that Manchester City need to keep, as Kevin De Bruyne sings star’s praises
It’s nice to hear such high praise from De Bruyne for Bernardo. It’s clear he rates him extremely highly.
And as he should, because Bernardo is a world-class player and has been for some time. Indeed, last weekend Gary Neville described him as ‘amazing’, and even suggested him as now being close to the level of City legend David Silva.
As De Bruyne says, his in-game intelligence is just incredible. He understands the game of football so well and at times he just makes it look so easy.
And it doesn’t matter where he’s playing – you know you’re going to get a top performance from him.
His future remains in doubt, and it does seems like there is some potential for him to leave this summer.
Hopefully City do not allow this to happen, although history tells us the club doesn’t stand in the way of a player that wants to go and has given great service.
