{"id":455287,"date":"2023-08-16T14:09:37","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T10:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=455287"},"modified":"2023-08-16T14:09:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T10:09:37","slug":"man-city-accept-al-nassrs-offer-for-laporte","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/man-city-accept-al-nassrs-offer-for-laporte\/","title":{"rendered":"Man. City accept Al-Nassr&#8217;s offer for Laporte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City have accepted an undisclosed bid from the Saudi Arabian side for Aymeric Laporte.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8 Manchester City accept offer from Al Nassr for Aymeric Laporte. 29yo Spain centre-back into final 2 years of contract + thought to be open to possibility. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MCFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MCFC<\/a> willing to sell, with Saudi Pro League club <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AlNassr?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AlNassr<\/a> pushing to get deal done <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthleticFC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TheAthleticFC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vTsZT2idii\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/vTsZT2idii<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Ornstein (@David_Ornstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/David_Ornstein\/status\/1691712222563639738?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Spain international started 43 matches for the Sky Blues during 2021-22, but manager Pep Guardiola used Manuel Akanji and Nathan Ake ahead of him in the past campaign, where City won a treble.<\/p>\n<p>The Premier League champ paid 95 million dollars to sign another defender Josko Gvardiol from RB Leipzig.<\/p>\n<p>Aymeric can become a teammate with Cristiano Ronaldo, Sadio Mane, Marcelo Brozovic, and Alex Telles in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Laporte landed in City for a then-record fee of 77 million dollars in 2018 from Athletic Bilbao. Guardiola became the Sky Blues boss year and a half before that, and he wanted a defender that could play with the ball and the midfielders, and Aymeric helped with that as he triumphed with 5 Premier League trophies in the past 6 years.<\/p>\n<p>Laporte has played 180 matches for Manchester City as the defender has scored 12 goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City have accepted an undisclosed bid from the Saudi Arabian side for Aymeric Laporte. \ud83d\udea8 Manchester City accept offer from Al Nassr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":455288,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20939,17183,17317],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[20940,18121,17886],"acf":{"announce":"The defender can continue his career in Saudi Arabia.","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\/455287"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/455287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455287"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=455287"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=455287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}