On Tuesday, Manchester City coach Pop Guardiola said that Rodri will be out for "a long, long time" and requires surgery, manager Pep Guardiola has said.
Guardiola: "Still, we don't have the definitive. He'll be out for a long time, a while, but there is some opinions that maybe it will be less than we expect."
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"Unfortunately he was injured. Right now, still, I cannot tell you [how long] because we're waiting the last phone calls from him and the doctors to know exactly what, definitely, he has and the type of surgery that he has to get."
He said: "We don't want this, but we will still have a good season. I trust a lot in my players, I have a duty to find a solution.
"Rodri is irreplaceable and the team won't play with the best midfielder in the world for a long, long time. Of course it's a big, big blow for us.
"But it's football, it's happened, and my duty is to find a solution, to be competitive like we have been for many years."
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