{"id":474504,"date":"2023-12-30T12:20:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T16:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=474504"},"modified":"2023-12-30T12:20:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T16:20:58","slug":"villareal-re-sign-eric-bailly-after-release-from-besiktas","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/villareal-re-sign-eric-bailly-after-release-from-besiktas\/","title":{"rendered":"Villareal re-sign Eric Bailly after release from Besiktas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Villareal have re-signed Eric Bailly on an 18-month contract after the Ivorian defender was released from Turkish club Besiktas.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udfe1 Official, confirmed. Eric Bailly has joined Villarreal as free agent, deal now signed and sealed. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X1zOms2VLr\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/X1zOms2VLr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1741112729048424814?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 30, 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 moved to Turkey from Manchester United in the summer, but struggled to adapt. He only made 8 appearances and was among the five players excluded from the first-team squad this season.<\/p>\n<p>The center-back last played for Besiktas against Fenerbache on December 9.<\/p>\n<p>Bailly played for Villarreal during the 2015-16 season before joining Manchester United for \u00a330m.<\/p>\n<p>After that the defender stayed for 7 seasons in Manchester United, becoming Jose Mourinho&#8217;s first signing. However, a combination of long injuries and poor form saw him made only 113 appearances in that period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Villareal have re-signed Eric Bailly on an 18-month contract after the Ivorian defender was released from Turkish club Besiktas. \ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udfe1 Official, confirmed. Eric [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":474505,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17678,21244,20209],"news_category":[137,14235],"gn_keywords":[21246,21245,20211],"acf":{"announce":"The Ivorian returns to his former club","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\/474504"}],"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=474504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474506,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474504\/revisions\/474506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474504"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=474504"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=474504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}