{"id":510295,"date":"2026-03-26T13:00:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=510295"},"modified":"2026-03-26T13:00:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:00:34","slug":"rodri-open-to-playing-for-real-madrid-despite-atleticos-past","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/rodri-open-to-playing-for-real-madrid-despite-atleticos-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodri open to playing for Real Madrid despite Atletico&#8217;s past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man City star Rodri does not believe being an ex-Atletico Madrid footballer rules him out of joining Los Blancos and has claimed: \u201cYou can\u2019t turn down the best teams in the world\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish player, who is 29 years old, has played 293 games for the Sky Blues since joining from Atletico Madrid 7 years ago, will be out of deal next summer.<\/p>\n<p>The midfielder shared that he will discuss his future with Manchester City first, but he would like to someday play in his home country again.<\/p>\n<p>Despite playing 47 matches for Atletico, the 2024 Ballon d\u2019Or winner claimed he wouldn\u2019t mind signing for Real Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>Footballers, who have played for both Madrid giants, feature goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois and Spain striker Alvaro Morata, as both of them played for Chelsea during their time in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Rodri has secured 12 major trophies with Man City, including 4 EPL titles and 1 UCL trophy. The Spaniard has appeared in 18 Premier League matches in the current campaign after rupturing his anterior cruciate ligament 2 years ago.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Manchester City midfielder Rodri has said he would be open to a move to Real Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>Sky Sports News understands Rodri is a player City would very much prefer to keep and agree a new contract with \ud83d\udd35 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IN2IL9Wi2t\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/IN2IL9Wi2t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsNews\/status\/2037138604162523164?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 26, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man City star Rodri does not believe being an ex-Atletico Madrid footballer rules him out of joining Los Blancos and has claimed: \u201cYou [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":510296,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17183,20893],"news_category":[137,14235,14084],"gn_keywords":[18121,7120],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Sky Blues midfielder is open to a Los Blancos move.","video":["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\/510295"}],"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=510295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/510295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510297,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/510295\/revisions\/510297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510295"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=510295"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=510295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}