{"id":71514,"date":"2026-08-17T08:38:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T08:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/71514\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T08:38:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T08:38:21","slug":"barcelona-agrees-88m-deal-for-man-citys-rodri-shafaq-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/71514\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona agrees $88M deal for Man City\u2019s Rodri &#8211; Shafaq News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-08-17T06:57:20+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News- Barcelona<\/p>\n<p>Rodri is closing in on a return to the Spanish league<br \/>\nafter Barcelona agreed a deal worth about 65 million pounds ($88M) with<br \/>\nManchester City for the Spain midfielder, according to the latest developments<br \/>\nin transfer negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old is set to sign a four-year contract with<br \/>\nBarcelona, with the final formalities of the transfer due to be completed in<br \/>\nthe coming days.<\/p>\n<p>Rodri joined Manchester City from Atletico Madrid in<br \/>\n2019 for 62.8 million pounds (around $85M) and became a central figure in the club&#8217;s<br \/>\nmidfield. He made 298 appearances over seven seasons, helping City win 12 major<br \/>\ntrophies, including four Premier League titles, two FA Cups, three League Cups<br \/>\nand the Champions League in the 2022-23 season.<\/p>\n<p>His spell at City was interrupted by injuries. Rodri<br \/>\nmissed much of the 2024-25 campaign after suffering a serious knee injury and<br \/>\nlater sustained a hamstring problem. He returned to form at the most recent<br \/>\nWorld Cup, helping Spain claim the title for the second time and earning the<br \/>\ntournament&#8217;s best-player award.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona initially offered 38.5 million pounds ($52.2M) for the<br \/>\nmidfielder last week, but City rejected the bid as Rodri approached the final<br \/>\nyear of his contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-08-17T06:57:20+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Barcelona Rodri is closing in on a return&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[92,27841,223,313,272,1102,19561],"class_list":["post-71514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barcelona","tag-barcelona","tag-barcelona-agrees-88m-deal-for-man-citys-rodri","tag-fc-barcelona","tag-football","tag-manchester-city","tag-rodri","tag-transfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}