{"id":489290,"date":"2025-01-11T16:45:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T20:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=489290"},"modified":"2025-01-11T16:45:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T20:45:05","slug":"man-city-captain-kyle-walker-hands-in-transfer-request","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/man-city-captain-kyle-walker-hands-in-transfer-request\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City captain Kyle Walker hands in transfer request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City defender Kyle Walker has expressed his desire to leave the club and play abroad, manager Pep Guardiola revealed following City&#8217;s dominant 8-0 FA Cup third-round victory over Salford City on Saturday. Despite being fit and available, Walker was left out of the matchday squad, signaling a shift in his future with the team.<\/p>\n<p>Guardiola disclosed that Walker approached him on Thursday to discuss his intentions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8 BREAKING: Kyle Walker has asked to leave Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo days ago, Kyle asked to explore the options to play abroad and end his career\u201d, says Pep Guardiola. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZOZsDhBQBG\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ZOZsDhBQBG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1878173789273391113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two days ago, Kyle asked to explore the options to play abroad at the end of his career,&#8221; Guardiola stated. &#8220;He asked two years ago after the Treble. Bayern Munich wanted him, but the offer was not good enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The manager emphasized Walker&#8217;s vital role in City&#8217;s recent success, saying, &#8220;We cannot understand the success the club had these years without Kyle. It&#8217;s impossible. He gave us something we didn\u2019t have and he\u2019s been amazing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, Guardiola acknowledged Walker&#8217;s current mindset: &#8220;Now in his mind, he would like to explore going to another country. For that reason, I prefer to play other players whose mind is here, that\u2019s all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Walker, a key player since joining City in 2017, has been instrumental in the club\u2019s domestic and international triumphs, including last season&#8217;s historic Treble win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City defender Kyle Walker has expressed his desire to leave the club and play abroad, manager Pep Guardiola revealed following City&#8217;s dominant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":489291,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18056,17183,17412],"news_category":[136,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[18122,18121,677],"acf":{"announce":"The defender wants to play abroad and end his career ","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\/489290"}],"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=489290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/489290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489292,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/489290\/revisions\/489292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489290"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=489290"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=489290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}