{"id":129139,"date":"2025-05-24T22:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T22:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/129139\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T22:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T22:44:10","slug":"transfer-news-live-wirtz-twist-man-utd-double-deal-delap-talks-set-football-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/129139\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer news LIVE: Wirtz twist, Man Utd double deal, Delap talks set | Football | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA president Gianni Infantino confirmed that talks are underway for Cristiano Ronaldo to join a Club World Cup side on loan.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo&#8217;s Al-Nassr side did not qualify for this summer&#8217;s competition, which includes the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/manchester-city-fc\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manchester City<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/chelsea-fc\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chelsea<\/a>, Real Madrid and Inter Miami.<\/p>\n<p>But the legendary striker may still feature, as Infantino told streamer IShowSpeed: \u201cRonaldo might play for one of the teams as well at the Club World Cup. There are discussions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the matter again, Infantino replied: \u201cYeah, Cristiano Ronaldo might play in the Club World Cup, yeah.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are discussions with some clubs, so if any club is watching and is interested in hiring Ronaldo for the Club World Cup\u2026who knows, who knows.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FIFA president Gianni Infantino confirmed that talks are underway for Cristiano Ronaldo to join a Club World Cup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[161,6167,57003,748,6274,393,2912,4884,179,763,1127,24500,57002,2465,423,100,56999,2357,57000,16,15,57001],"class_list":{"0":"post-129139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-arsenal-fc","10":"tag-arsenal-transfer-ne","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-chelsea-fc","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-florian-wirtz","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-liverpool","17":"tag-liverpool-fc","18":"tag-liverpool-transfer-news","19":"tag-man-utd","20":"tag-man-utd-transfer-news","21":"tag-manchester","22":"tag-manchester-united-fc","23":"tag-transfer-news","24":"tag-transfer-news-live","25":"tag-transfers","26":"tag-transfers-live","27":"tag-uk","28":"tag-united-kingdom","29":"tag-wirtz-liverpool"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114565235544072457","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}