{"id":438226,"date":"2023-06-21T06:26:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T10:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438226"},"modified":"2023-06-21T06:26:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T10:26:03","slug":"kovacic-to-join-man-city-in-30m-deal","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/kovacic-to-join-man-city-in-30m-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Kovacic to join Man City in \u00a330m deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mateo Kovacic is set to join Manchester City after the Citizens have agreed a \u00a330m deal with Chelsea for the Croatian international.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 Mateo Kovacic to Man City is a \u201cHERE WE GO\u201d &#8211; \u00a330m fee. (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@FabrizioRomano<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NZcv3sIeuj\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/NZcv3sIeuj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pys (@CFCPys) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CFCPys\/status\/1671450879038242817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old will join the Premier League champions for initial \u00a325m fee, with five added on later.<\/p>\n<p>Kovacic spent 4 years with Chelsea since joining from Real Madrid in 2019 initially on loan, but later on a permanent 5-year deal. He has bagged 221 appearances for the London team, scoring 6 times in total.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea are continuing to sell players in order to trim down their squad for the arrival of new boss Mauricio Pochettino, as N&#8217;Golo Kante was also sold to Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Al-Ittihad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mateo Kovacic is set to join Manchester City after the Citizens have agreed a \u00a330m deal with Chelsea for the Croatian international. \ud83d\udea8 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":438227,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16774,17183,18662],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[17902,18121,19673],"acf":{"announce":"The Croatian is finally on his way out of Stamford Bridge","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438226"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=438226"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=438226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}