Kevin De Bruyne has said he has no regrets about exiting Chelsea after scoring the winner in Manchester City’s 1-0 victory at Stamford Bridge on Saturday.
“I’ve no regrets over anything that happened,” the 26-year-old said after the win over last season’s champions.
“I don’t think they have regrets — they’ve won two league titles since I’ve been gone, so they’ve done fairly well.
“That’s the way it goes, it’s a business. At that point it was a good decision for me to go and maybe for them it was also good to let me go.
“There’s no bad feeling at all. It’s just part of life and you need to grow up.”
City have made an impressive start to the season, failing to win just one of their opening 10 games in all competitions, and De Bruyne believes his teammates are starting to get used to Guardiola’s demands.
“It’s the way we started to play last year but, obviously, you get some growing pains,” he added.
“If somebody makes a mistake, then it looks a little bit silly but it takes hard work. Don’t think it comes easy.
“It can be more difficult to do the pressing against [lesser] teams because you know they’re going to play the long balls, so the pressing has to be different and you have to manage the space.”
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