Manchester City attacker Kevin de Bruyne has denied stories of Pep Guardiola being a micro-manager.

De Bruyne insists his manager is happy to give his players "freedom" away from football.

"We have lots of meetings at the club but it doesn't extend to personal things like that," he told the Daily Mail.

"We have a lot of freedom. That's important because your head needs to be free. It's no good if it's always [football-football'.

"You know, we sometimes sleep at home before games and that's good. We know we eat here in the morning and after training and, yeah, sometimes the coach is there. But it's not as if we need to eat at a certain time. We eat when we want, as long as it's here.

"Like I say, some freedom."