{"id":453718,"date":"2023-08-02T11:57:25","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T15:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=453718"},"modified":"2023-08-02T11:57:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T15:57:25","slug":"manchester-city-agree-78m-deal-for-josko-gvardiol","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/manchester-city-agree-78m-deal-for-josko-gvardiol\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City agree \u00a378m deal for Josko Gvardiol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City have agreed terms with RB Leipzig to sign Josko Gvardiol for \u00a378m.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u00a378 million for Josko Gvardiol. Txiki was cooking <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VOIjhv9QUy\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/VOIjhv9QUy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; 17 (@DxBruyneSZN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DxBruyneSZN\/status\/1686742324276015104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Gvardiol has been a top priority for head coach Pep Guardiola and is seen as a long-term prospect at the Citizens.<\/p>\n<p>His price tag is the second highest for a defender, falling just short of the \u00a380m Manchester United paid for Harry Maguire back in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>City are keen on finishing the deal before their Sunday&#8217;s Community Shield clash with Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>Gvardiol is still not part of the Citizens&#8217; squad for their pre-season double-header fixtures, but he is in the stands as a spectator.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old was an integral part of the Croatia squad that reached the 2022 World Cup semi-final and also played a key role in Leipzig&#8217;s strong season with the Germans reaching the last 16 of the Champions League, crashing out to Manchester City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City have agreed terms with RB Leipzig to sign Josko Gvardiol for \u00a378m. \u00a378 million for Josko Gvardiol. Txiki was cooking pic.twitter.com\/VOIjhv9QUy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":453719,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20077,17183,17709],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[20078,18121,19505],"acf":{"announce":"The Croatian will finally join the Treble winners after weeks-long negotiations","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\/453718"}],"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=453718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/453718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453718"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=453718"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=453718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}