Kevin De Bruyne, Ilkay Gundogan and Stefan Ortega were the only Manchester City stars to attend a celebratory meal at a local Chinese restaurant on Sunday night – because the rest of their team-mates were on a whistle-stop trip to Ibiza.
The trio were pictured at local hot spot Tattu as they joined backroom staff hours after arriving back from Istanbul having won the Champions League and sealing a historic Treble.
After what appeared to be all-night celebrations on Saturday after their 1-0 win over Inter Milan, some of Pep Guardiola’s squad had the stamina to fly to Ibiza for a 12-hour party before flying back on Monday for their trophy parade at 6:30pm.
But De Bruyne, who went off injured in the final, attended Tattu with wife Michele, arriving at 9.30pm and leaving just before midnight, while Gundogan arrived at around the same time.
Goalkeeper Ortega, who played City’s domestic cup games, also went to the celebration at the restaurant.
Kevin De Bruyne and his wife Michele leave Tattu restaurant in Manchester city centre – but only a handful of players made the dinner as the others had flown to Ibiza for a 12-hour party
The Belgian star and his wife continued the celebrations as they joined staff for a meal
City captain Ilkay Gundogan also visited Tattu on Sunday, hours after the squad’s return
City completed a historic Treble by beating Inter Milan in Saturday’s Champions League final
Tattu’s menu includes a £74.50 per person sharing option featuring caramel soy aged beef fillet, red snapper tom yum, aromatic crispy duck pancakes and seven spiced seared tuna.
For £99.50, guests can indulge in a menu of Japanese black wagyu, Shanghai black cod and dim sum, with desserts including a white chocolate dragon egg made of coconut, passionfruit and mango.
However, as exclusively revealed by Mail Sport, a large group of treble-winning City players jetted out to Ibiza for a night of partying ahead of a return back for today’s trophy parade.
Mail Sport understands that those involved – who did not include Guardiola – chartered a private jet from Manchester to the Balearic island to mark their history-making exploits in style.
They are expected back early this afternoon ahead of another evening of partying for the blue half of Manchester.
Guardiola and his squad will depart from Tonman Street, Deansgate, at approximately 6.30pm.
The bus will take a route through St Mary’s Gate, Cross Street and King Street before finishing on the corner of Princess Street and Portland Street.
A live stage show will take place on Oxford Street, with entertainment from 5.30pm, and the players will take to the stage at about 7.30pm.
City flew home from Turkey on Sunday afternoon to be greeted by flag-waving fans at Manchester Airport.
The players posed for pictures with the European Cup on their flight, and the trophy even made its way up to the pilots in the cockpit.
The Manchester City squad posed on the steps at the end of one of the greatest seasons in the history of English football
Jack Grealish and Erling Haaland pose with the European Cup on City’s flight back home
John Stones took the trophy up to the cockpit, where the pilots posed with it
Grealish made use of the plane’s intercom en route back from Turkey, to Stones’ amusement
Jack Grealish, who seemingly stayed in his match kit during Saturday’s all-nighter having sung to Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Everywhere’ in the dressing room, was seen making use of the intercom on board.
Having arrived back at their hotel from the Ataturk Stadium at 3am, City’s players, staff and their families partied beyond dawn.
Grealish led the celebrations, held on an open-air terrace at the JW Marriott hotel in Istanbul, where rooms cost £1,600 a night.
The England star could be seen rapping as a DJ played thumping disco music in the background.
As dawn broke at around 4.30am, a video clip showed the players still going strong as they celebrated their historic achievement.
TV screens with the caption ‘Champions Of Europe 2022/23’ were also dotted around the venue with the celebrations going on until 8.30am.
A source said: ‘It was a wild night, and everyone was in high spirits. Who can blame them? The team had just won the Champions League so they deserved a party.
‘Jack was the star of the show DJing and singing until the sun was up and high in the sky. It was almost 9am before the players started to drift back to their rooms.’
Jack Grealish led the party as Manchester City celebrated on Saturday night
Erling Haaland posted a picture of himself on his Instagram smoking a huge cigar
Grealish joined in with a rendition of a Fleetwood Mac hit song in the dressing room
The party is thought to have cost £100,000 but would have been small change to Man City’s billionaire owner Sheikh Mansour – who was in the crowd on Saturday night attending only his second game since taking over the club in 2008 – his first time in 13 years.
The players only snatched three hours sleep before they boarded the coach for their flight back to Manchester on an Etihad airways plane painted in the club’s blue and white colours.
Grealish could be seen with his head poking out of a window on the roof of the bus as fans clapped and cheered as they left.
Erling Haaland posted a picture of himself on his Instagram smoking a huge cigar while later he shared one of him and Grealish with blue face paint adding: ‘Love this guy.’
After the game on Saturday night, wives and girlfriends had come onto the pitch at the Olympic Stadium to share in the wild celebrations.
Pep Guardiola celebrates with his wife Cristina Serra after leading Man City to the Treble
Haaland, 22, celebrated with his girlfriend Isabel Johansen, 19 – draped in the Norwegian flag