Report Reveals Pep Guardiola Banned Benjamin Mendy From Training Over Poor Punctuality

Pep Guardiola's patience with Benjamin Mendy's off-field conduct is wearing thin, despite his importance to Manchester City's progression as a team.

Mendy missed City's matches against Fulham and Cardiff with a bruised metatarsal. He was scheduled to have a recovery session last Sunday but turned up three hours late and was reportedly told to leave by Guardiola upon his eventual arrival.

Speaking on Friday ahead of the weekend's match against Brighton, Guardiola insisted that Mendy was "every day in the training sessions", but sources have told Goal that this was not the case, and that Guardiola actually banned the Frenchman from training for a week.

This is not the first time that Mendy's…