{"id":485541,"date":"2024-07-23T04:02:15","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T08:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=485541"},"modified":"2024-07-23T02:26:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T06:26:04","slug":"guardiola-confirms-de-bruyne-will-stay-at-manchester-city","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/guardiola-confirms-de-bruyne-will-stay-at-manchester-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardiola confirms De Bruyne will stay at Manchester City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has confirmed that influential midfielder Kevin de Bruyne will remain at the club despite heavy links to a summer move to Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>De Bruyne, who has one year left on his contract, recently acknowledged the financial allure of the Saudi Pro-League, stating he would consider an offer due to the &#8220;incredible money&#8221; available. However, Guardiola dismissed concerns over the Belgian&#8217;s potential departure.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: Pep Guardiola confirms that Kevin de Bruyne will NOT leave Manchester City for Saudi Arabia this summer \ud83d\udea8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZNI6wAIdtv\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ZNI6wAIdtv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsNews\/status\/1815629656143372745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 23, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kevin isn\u2019t leaving,&#8221; Guardiola told reporters ahead of City\u2019s opening pre-season game against Celtic in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, set for Wednesday (00:30 BST).<\/p>\n<p>De Bruyne was pivotal in City&#8217;s Premier League triumph last season, securing their fourth consecutive title and his sixth overall with the club.<\/p>\n<p>While Crystal Palace\u2019s Euro 2024 squad member Ebereche Eze has been linked with a move to City, and Brazil goalkeeper Ederson has attracted interest from Saudi Arabia, Guardiola believes his squad will largely remain unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If someone leaves, we are going to talk about that and, of course, until the last day [of the transfer window] we have chances,&#8221; Guardiola said. &#8220;I don\u2019t rule out new players as an option, but I think there is an 85, 90, 95% chance we will have the same squad.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has confirmed that influential midfielder Kevin de Bruyne will remain at the club despite heavy links to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":485542,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16866,17183,17412],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[18790,18121,677],"acf":{"announce":"The manager is not worried about the Saudi Arabia links ","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\/485541"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485543,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485541\/revisions\/485543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485541"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=485541"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=485541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}