Manchester City defender John Stones says helium "feels great" aft overcoming "dark days" during an injury-hit 2 years.
Centre-back Stones past featured for City successful February, playing lone 8 minutes successful the Champions League play-off decision by Real Madrid earlier helium was forced disconnected with a thigh injury.
The 31-year-old says helium is "back fit" aft being included successful City's 27-man squad for the Club World Cup successful the United States.
Stones said: "It's hard erstwhile you're injured, you astir enactment longer and more, truthful from that facet I cognize the guys mentally and physically person had specified a agelong season. I accidental mentally for maine it's been hard dealing with the injuries and the process.
"But present I've enactment that down maine and utilized this arsenic a mini instauration backmost earlier the caller play and different trophy for america to hopefully triumph and get immoderate crippled time.
"I've been backmost successful grooming a fewer weeks present and that's been going great, trying to bash other moving if I request to, if I request to effort and get those levels up. Just those little, truly tiny details person made specified a large difference.
"I'm ace excited and hopefully tin instrumentality these small things that we've made and tweaked, which are going to amended maine for the future."
Stones has been with City for 9 seasons aft joining from Everton for £47.5m.
He has enjoyed a trophy-filled spell astatine the club, winning six Premier League titles, the Champions League, 2 FA Cup and 4 League Cups, portion besides being capped 83 times for England.
Though helium has played 277 games for his club, helium lone managed 13 starts past term, including six successful the Premier League.
"I deliberation we each self-doubt arsenic players and consciousness things, and we privation to get backmost arsenic speedy arsenic possible. Maybe that's a downfall sometimes that you effort and propulsion excessively soon," helium said.
"Definitely household [help], I deliberation that's my biggest thing, being astir them and having their support.
"You tin consciousness precise lonely astatine times erstwhile you're grooming by yourself and that's the hard portion of it, being successful a squad sport, not grooming with the squad erstwhile you tally retired connected the transportation successful your rehab."
Stones has suffered a succession of foot, hamstring and thigh injuries implicit the past 2 campaigns, missing a full of 164 days and 33 games, according to Transfermarkt., external
Stones said: "There's been points wherever you deliberation you've been giving each this effort, you dedicate each your beingness - particularly however I attack oregon spell astir my beingness and football, I springiness everything - connected and disconnected the transportation to beryllium present oregon beryllium acceptable to play games, and those are the acheronian days.
"I deliberation everyone's been done them and think, 'why is this happening?'. You privation it would person gone a antithetic path, but similar I said, it's self-doubt, there's a batch of things.
"All of america person been done antithetic upbringings and challenges done beingness and what did we bash wrong those situations, was it combat oregon was it springiness up?
"I was a combatant from a young age, successful hard moments, you person to look astatine the bigger representation and realise what are your morals, what you judge in, and combat to marque it worthwhile."
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