{"id":640950,"date":"2026-08-17T00:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T00:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/640950\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T00:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T00:21:13","slug":"man-city-rodri-transfer-done-as-big-barcelona-fee-revealed-by-top-insiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/640950\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City: Rodri transfer done as big Barcelona fee revealed by top insiders"},"content":{"rendered":"

A number of top insiders have confirmed the fee Barcelona will pay to Manchester City<\/a> after the English club finally accepted an offer for midfield man Rodri.<\/p>\n

The Spaniard\u2019s exit was accepted in City\u2019s minds months ago. It was suggested Rodri<\/strong><\/a> wanted to leave this summer, with a return to Spain his priority.<\/p>\n

Real Madrid were the main club interested, but City<\/strong><\/a> sounded out other clubs \u2013 Barcelona among them \u2013 and the midfielder decided he wanted to join the LaLiga champions.<\/p>\n

But Barca struggled to convince City to sell for some time \u2013 a derisory first bid of \u20ac45million (\u00a338.5m) was immediately knocked back, and two more failed soon after.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, the Spanish giants have finally made their breakthrough, with an entire package of \u20ac76.5million (\u00a365.4million) revealed by our friends at TEAMtalk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A number of other transfer insiders have also confirmed the news that Rodri will be joining Barca.<\/p>\n

Insiders confirm Rodri transfer<\/strong><\/p>\n

David Ornstein wrote for The Athletic<\/a>: \u2018City will receive an upfront fee of \u20ac60million (\u00a351.2m; $68.8m) for the central midfielder with more than \u20ac11m of the add-ons viewed as achievable, with the Premier League side expecting to achieve at least \u20ac71.5m for a player who has less than 12 months of his contract remaining.<\/p>\n

\u2018Personal terms are not expected to be an issue for the Spain international, who starred in his nation\u2019s World Cup success this summer, with a four-year contract proposed by champions of La Liga.\u2019<\/p>\n

Fabrizio Romano<\/a>, meanwhile, said: \u2018Rodri will sign a four year contract at Barcelona this upcoming week \u2013 it will be valid until June 2030.<\/p>\n

And Ben Jacobs<\/a> stated City will \u2018reinvest in the midfield in the coming days.\u2019<\/p>\n

The deal for Lille\u2019s Ayyoub Bouaddi is expected to be confirmed shortly, with the Moroccan signing for \u20ac100million (\u00a385.5m), and he\u2019ll be the second expensive midfielder signed at the Etihad this summer after \u00a3116million Elliot Anderson.<\/p>\n

City retain an interest in Chelsea midfielder Enzo Fernandez after the Blues\u2019 5pm deadline for his \u00a3120million transfer passed on Friday.<\/p>\n

The Citizens are said to remain in contact both with the Argentine\u2019s camp and with Chelsea over a potential transfer.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s expected the Blues could still sanction his exit<\/strong><\/a>, but that it won\u2019t be for the \u00a3120million that City or any other club could have got him for in recent days.<\/p>\n

READ MORE<\/strong>: Arsenal, Man City target Pedro Neto agrees terms over \u00a351m Chelsea exit as next club named<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A number of top insiders have confirmed the fee Barcelona will pay to Manchester City after the English…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[19139,9,10,18,13,14,793,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,2353,5,795,53370,7,8],"class_list":["post-640950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-barcelona","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-front-page","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-manchester-city","tag-news","tag-premier-league","tag-rodri","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117107994482508635","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640950","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=640950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}