{"id":21602,"date":"2022-06-21T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/06\/21\/update-provided-as-barcelona-remain-in-the-hunt-for-man-city-star-bernardo-silva\/"},"modified":"2022-06-21T12:00:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T16:00:39","slug":"update-provided-as-barcelona-remain-in-the-hunt-for-man-city-star-bernardo-silva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/06\/21\/update-provided-as-barcelona-remain-in-the-hunt-for-man-city-star-bernardo-silva\/","title":{"rendered":"Update provided as Barcelona remain in the hunt for Man City star Bernardo Silva"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Pep Guardiola\u2019s Premier League holders Manchester City could be one key attacking piece lighter this summer after star midfielder and Portuguese international Bernardo Silva has emerged as a prime transfer target for La Liga giants Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>It was reported two weeks ago by transfer insider Fabrizio Romano that Bar\u00e7a boss Xavi is a huge fan of Silva (27), with agent Jorge Mendes having already sat down with club president Joan Laporte in exploratory talks over a move to the Camp Nou.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Bernardo Silva situation. Barcelona are not yet in official talks with Man City, as it depends on de Jong sale \u2013 also, City want around \u20ac85\/90m but Bernardo would be open to leave. ?? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FCB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FCB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He was the main name discussed in meeting between Laporta &amp; Mendes few days ago. \u2935\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5RFk0nsz73\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/5RFk0nsz73<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1539262496116178948?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Silva, one of the undeniable key pieces of the puzzle under Guardiola since his arrival from Ligue 1 side AS Monaco in the summer of 2017, would be a massive acquisition for Barcelona as they look to track down bitter rivals Real Madrid next.<\/p>\n<p>Any deal for Silva is said to potentially set Barcelona back a cool ~\u00a380million should both clubs come to an agreement, with Silva open to the move as he looks to try his hand in La Liga.<\/p>\n<p>But the Catalans would be unable to afford a move for Silva at the time of writing, and any deal for the Portuguese creative outlet would hinge on Dutch international <a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/transfers\/revealed-how-far-apart-manchester-united-and-barcelona-are-apart-in-frenkie-de-jong-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frenkie de Jong<\/a> sealing a move to City rivals Manchester United as the Red Devils remain in the hunt to reunite the Ajax academy graduate with new boss Erik ten Hag.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona is also expecting French international winger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/chelsea-have-doubts-about-dembele-and-keen-on-nathan-ake-return\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9<\/a> to continue in his stance of not signing a contract extension at the Camp Nou amid interest from Chelsea, and even if he does not secure a move to Stamford Bridge, Bernardo Silva would present what would arguably be an upgrade on the Frenchman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pep Guardiola\u2019s Premier League holders Manchester City could be one key attacking piece lighter this summer after star midfielder and Portuguese international Bernardo Silva has emerged as a prime transfer target for La Liga giants Barcelona. It was reported two weeks ago by transfer insider Fabrizio Romano that Bar\u00e7a boss Xavi is a huge fan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-21602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-football","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}