Kevin De Bruyne could leave Man City midway through tournament with Real Madrid also facing contract chaos

KEVIN DE BRYUNE is 1 of a fig of apical stars who could permission their clubs adjacent summertime successful the MIDDLE of the caller Club World Cup.

The recently expanded tourney volition diagnostic 32 teams - the Premier League's representatives are Manchester City and Chelsea - playing successful the United States crossed June and July.

However, Fifa has yet to unafraid a TV woody for the tourney and corroborate venues the games volition beryllium played astatine earlier the July 13 final.

It has been heavy criticised for adding much fixtures to an already packed calendar.

And these are not the lone headaches looming implicit the tournament.

According to The Telegraph, players competing successful the tourney person begun seeing clarity implicit their declaration situations.

This is due to the fact that the dates of the contention overlap June 30, which is the year-end for registrations globally recognised by Fifa.

Several apical stars volition spot their declaration expire connected the day adjacent summer, meaning successful mentation that players could commencement playing the tourney for 1 squad and extremity it with another.

Belgium planetary De Bruyne is 1 of these.

The study states galore much players from the 12 Uefa clubs successful the tourney person besides asked for clarity implicit whether they would beryllium allowed to vie owed to their contracts being up.

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One root said: "If this had been held past summer, Kylian Mbappe would person started the Club World Cup playing for PSG and ended it astatine Real Madrid."

Real Madrid person 3 large stars who travel nether this bracket, with Luka Modric, Dani Carvajal and Lucas Vasquez each retired of declaration adjacent summer.

Meanwhile, Bayern Munich person six players affected by the issue, with Thomas Muller, Manuel Neuer, Joshua Kimmich, Eric Dier, Sven Ulreich and Alphonso Davies each retired of declaration adjacent summer.

Davies is simply a semipermanent transportation people of Madrid, truthful whitethorn person his aboriginal acutely impacted.

Football's governing assemblage person created a never-before-seen dilemma with competitory nine shot not usually played astatine that clip of year, which is erstwhile declaration decisions are made en masse.

Numerous ineligible issues surrounding said contracts whitethorn besides unfold, with factors specified arsenic cause fees, wage and security each surrounding escaped agents.

Fifa are expected to denote the venues for the tourney successful the coming weeks, with overmuch of it acceptable to beryllium played successful the eastbound USA.

The expected venues are the MetLife Stadium successful New Jersey; Washington DC’s FedEx Field; Philadelphia’s Subaru Park; Cincinnati’s TQL Stadium, Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium; Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium; Orlando’s Inter&Co Stadium and Seattle’s Lumen Field.

Fifa president Gianni Infantino besides faces problems specified arsenic assemblage involvement successful the States and a imaginable subordinate gyration earlier it comes about.

Man City prima Rodri has hinted it whitethorn beryllium a anticipation for players to guarantee they are heard, aft persistent complaints that they are not listened to implicit concerns of lucifer load.