Most of Manchester City 's Belgium and England players will return to training next week after agreeing to cut short their summer holidays.

But some of the Blues' World Cup stars will not be back until after the Community Shield clash with Chelsea on August 5.

Pep Guardiola confirmed that the majority of the players who played in the World Cup semi-finals just over a fortnight ago will return to training at the City Football Academy next week in a bid to be ready for the start of the season, but did not name names.

Bernardo Silva revealed last week that he had been asked to return early after missing pre-season last summer through international duty, while Benjamin Mendy has also elected to return early despite being in the France squad which lifted the trophy in Russia.



Guardiola has previously said that all of his World Cup players are entitled to three weeks' holiday, and that he will leave it to them to decide whether they need the full amount.

It is understood that two players may be claiming the full amount after playing into the final weekend of the tournament.

"Most of them are coming back, we have just four or five days to prepare for the first final (Community Shield), so we will have to adapt, and some coming back after the final," said Guardiola.

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"It's important we want players for the final but we'll play with the guys who are here. It's the same for any manager, we prefer to be together but we have to adapt - the calendar is the calendar. We made one pre-season now we need another pre-season before the start of the season."