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Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola fears striker Sergio Agüero will miss the first two months of the Premier League season.
Aguero suffered a knee injury against Burnley on June 22.
It kept the Argentine out of the last 10 games of City’s national campaign, as well as its two Champions League games in August.
Guardiola says he is now unsure whether the City’s 32-year-old record scorer will be fit until November.
“We knew the injury was difficult,” Guardiola said.
“He hasn’t had a training session with us yet and Sergio is not a guy to get back into shape quickly. He’s been away a long time so maybe in a month or two he’ll be ready.”
Agüero’s obvious replacement, Gabriel Jesús, scored five goals in 12 games at the end of last season.
Guardiola has new signing Ferran Torres available for Monday’s trip to the Wolves. However, Torres is more of an open player, so the likely alternative to Jesus would be Raheem Sterling, played in a ‘false nine’ role.
With veteran midfielder David Silva leaving City for Real Sociedad over the summer, Guardiola heads into the new campaign without the remaining stalwarts of the first team to win his club’s title since 2012.
