{"id":438662,"date":"2023-06-27T14:37:20","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T18:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438662"},"modified":"2023-06-27T14:39:58","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T18:39:58","slug":"mateo-kovacic-is-officially-manchester-city-player","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/mateo-kovacic-is-officially-manchester-city-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Mateo Kovacic is officially Manchester City player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City have officially signed Chelsea&#8217;s midfielder Mateo Kovacic for initial \u00a325m.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s been an incredible pleasure to play for such a great club &amp; win some of the biggest trophies in the sport. <\/p>\n<p>Chelsea is a club I have loved every second of being at but the time has come for me to move on. <\/p>\n<p>See you soon, Mateo <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zvTc9XrhBc\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/zvTc9XrhBc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mateo Kovacic (@mateokovacic8) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mateokovacic8\/status\/1673749030373916673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The deal also includes possible \u00a35m in ads-ons if the player performs well.<\/p>\n<p>Kovacic is City&#8217;s first signing of the summer after clinching a historic Treble.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a brilliant move for me, and I cannot wait to get started with City,&#8221; said Kovacic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anyone who has watched this team under [manager] Pep [Guardiola] knows how good they are &#8211; for me, they are the best in the world. The trophies they have won are clear for all to see, but they are also the best footballing side out there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kovacic will be expected to replace Ilkay Gundogan, who chose not to extend his contract with the Citizens, but instead headed to Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>The Croatian international spent 5 years with Chelsea, winning the Champions League, Europa League, Europe Super Cup and Club World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City have officially signed Chelsea&#8217;s midfielder Mateo Kovacic for initial \u00a325m. It\u2019s been an incredible pleasure to play for such a great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":438664,"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":"After weeks of speculation the Croatian international finally leaves 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\/438662"}],"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=438662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438662"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=438662"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=438662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}