{"id":628733,"date":"2026-08-09T14:38:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T14:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/628733\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T14:38:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T14:38:43","slug":"jose-mourinho-couldnt-believe-it-real-madrid-boss-left-furious-as-man-city-ace-rodri-chooses-barcelona-move-over-bernabeu-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/628733\/","title":{"rendered":"Jose Mourinho &#8216;couldn&#8217;t believe&#8217; it! Real Madrid boss left FURIOUS as Man City ace Rodri chooses Barcelona move over Bernabeu switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:start\">odri&#8217;s decision to green-light a move to Barcelona has sent shockwaves through the European market, impacting several other clubs. Manchester United, now managed by Michael Carrick, were reportedly monitoring Aurelien Tchouameni&#8217;s situation. The Red Devils had hoped that if Real Madrid landed Rodri, Tchouameni might become available for a transfer to Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona must now work to agree on a fee with Man City, though negotiations have hit an early snag after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/lists\/man-city-reject-barcelona-transfer-rodri\/bltcc841306bafdb7b6\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Premier League giants rejected the Catalan club&#8217;s opening bid<\/a>. With Rodri entering the final 12 months of his contract at the Etihad Stadium, Barca will need to return with an improved offer to get the deal over the line. Meanwhile, for Real Madrid, the focus remains on internal development and the potential late swoop for Mokio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"odri&#8217;s decision to green-light a move to Barcelona has sent shockwaves through the European market, impacting several other&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[76],"tags":[19139,18,19,17,265360,19497,2353,795,5134,53370,132,1271],"class_list":["post-628733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-barcelona","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-j-mourinho","tag-laliga","tag-manchester-city","tag-premier-league","tag-real-madrid","tag-rodri","tag-sports","tag-transfers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117066065930135740","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}