Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini has told Belgium their captain Vincent Kompany will not be fit for their final Euro 2016 qualifiers.

The 29-year-old has also been ruled out of City's clash with Newcastle this weekend and Pellegrini does not expect him to be fit for at least another fortnight.

Pellegrini said: "I can't ask him not to travel - if the national team call him, he must go. He is an important player, he must be with his mates and Belgium are playing important games for the next European Championship.

"It is not a problem for him to go to the national squad but he cannot play, so I don't think he will play.

"In the same way when you don't play for your national team you cannot play after for your club, it must be the same in the other sense. If you cannot play for your squad you cannot play for your national squad."

Pellegrini hopes Kompany will recover from his latest setback during the international break, along with a number of other players on a lengthy injury list.

He said: "I hope that Vincent can return after the international break but I am not sure. I hope that after 15 days he will be able to play but the calf is a difficult muscle. We must see in the way he improves.

"It is not normal what we have had in the last few weeks. Against Sunderland we had 11 players injured. Since then we have had an average of six, seven or eight (out). I think it is too much and I hope in this international break most of them will be fit."