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Manchester City have been told Kevin de Bruyne will NOT force through his exit from Wolfsburg.

The Blues were keen for the Belgian to declare his desire to move to the Etihad as they seek to complete a deal for the talented playmaker.

City chiefs are confident that the former Chelsea man wants to switch.

But they are yet to receive an official response to the £46m offer they made to Wolfsburg this week - with coach Dieter Hecking claiming there hasn’t been even been a bid from the Blues.

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And the 24-year-old’s agent Patrick De Koster has insisted he has no intention of handing in a formal transfer request.

“There is no way we would do something like that – we have a good relationship with Wolfsburg and a transfer request is not something that happens in Germany,” he told the Guardian.

“At this stage we have not received a call to say that any bid has been accepted and until we do Kevin will stay where he is.”