{"id":874884,"date":"2026-04-06T02:15:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/874884\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T02:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:15:16","slug":"its-official-the-end-of-bernardo-silvas-time-at-manchester-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/874884\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s official\u2026 The end of Bernardo Silva\u2019s time at Manchester City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City assistant manager Pep Lenders has confirmed that midfielder Bernardo Silva is spending his final days with the English side, after nine years at the Etihad Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery beautiful story has an end,\u201d Lenders said in comments published by the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Bernardo Silva has been linked with a move to Barcelona or Juventus, as well as clubs in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cYou can never replace a player with someone exactly like him, because there is no one else like him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cBernardo Silva is a unique player in the way he controls matches, his movement, his ball control, his leadership and his vision for solutions.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He noted, \u201cIt will be difficult, because when he misses just one match, you see how much he is missed. Imagine that over a whole season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He concluded, \u201cBut as I said, every beautiful story has an end, and I hope he enjoys his final months and gets the send-off he deserves\u2026 He deserves it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read also<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A sudden turnaround&#8230; Real Madrid pull out of a free transfer deal<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City assistant manager Pep Lenders has confirmed that midfielder Bernardo Silva is spending his final days with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[248111,748,393,4884,2465,886,101,2357,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-874884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-b-silva","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-manchester-city","14":"tag-premier-league","15":"tag-transfers","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116355355478172314","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874884","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=874884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}