According to the Manchester Evening News, Rodri suffered a groin injury during Manchester City's Club World Cup match against Riyadh Crescent.

The entire Manchester City team has started pre-season training and will play a warm-up match away from Serie B team Palermo this weekend. But midfielder Rodri was not included in the roster of this game. He was one of four Manchester City players who remained in Manchester. The other three players absent were Foden, Guvadior and Echeviri.

In the 1/8 final of the Club World Cup on July 1, Manchester City lost 3-4 to Riyadh Crescent in overtime. Rodri came on as a substitute in the 53rd minute of that game and was replaced in the 100th minute. Manchester Evening News revealed that Rodri suffered a groin injury at the time. Since Manchester City started summer training, Rodri has only been able to train alone most of the time.

Guardiola said: "Rodri is getting better, but he suffered a serious injury in the last game against Riyadh Crescent. He has trained better in the past few days and hopefully he can really get back to health after the September national team match day."

Guardiola continued: "We hope that in the next game, he will play for a few minutes. But the most important thing is that he no longer feels pain because we don't want Rodri to come back with an injury, and we will try our best to avoid this. Rodri has trained with us in the last two training sessions, which is good."