Pep Guardiola has praised Manchester City forward Phil Foden for being open about the mental health issues which troubled him last season.

Foden has been one of City's stand-out players in the early part of this season's campaign with two goals and two assists in seven appearances, although that was not enough to earn him a recall to Thomas Tuchel's England squad on Friday.

As City prepare to return to one of his favourite hunting grounds -- away to Brentford on Sunday -- Foden's spark is certainly back after a 2024-25 campaign in which he registered 13 goals and seven assists in 49 appearances, compared with 27 goals and 13 assists in 53 the season before.

In May, Foden said he had had "a lot of things going on off the pitch mentally" and added: "Sometimes there's things in l

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