{"id":11206,"date":"2022-02-08T19:45:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T14:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=190471"},"modified":"2022-02-08T19:45:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T14:15:22","slug":"luka-modric-untouchable-in-carlo-ancelottis-plans-extension-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/luka-modric-untouchable-in-carlo-ancelottis-plans-extension-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Modric untouchable in Carlo Ancelotti\u2019s plans, extension soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid midfielder Luka Modric\u2019s agreement extension is to be done soon and will be confirmed in a few weeks or months. He is expected to sign for one more season until 2023 and is untouchable in Los Blancos\u2019 boss Ancelotti\u2019s plans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReal Madrid consider Luka Modric nee contract as \u201d matter of time \u201c, deal to be extended in the coming weeks\/months. He\u2019s untouchable in Carlo Ancelotti\u2019s plans,\u201d Tweeted Italian journalist and football transfer expert Fabrizio Romano. \u201cNew contract will be until June 2023, one more season as expected,\u201d he further wrote on his Twitter post.<\/p>\n<p>The Croatian continues to be one of the key players of the 13 times Champions League winners club despite being 36 years old. The 36-year-old\u2019s contract will be expiring at the end of the season and there are no plans of retirement for the player. His stunning performance in the midfield earned him a place to stay in the club as a lead player for many seasons and the club are willing to have him for one more year.<\/p>\n<p>The Whites are currently topping the La Liga table with 53 points in 23 games followed by Sevilla FC. In the last game, they faced Granda FC and gained a victory where Marco Asensio\u2019s goal gave the Blancos three points to extend their lead. They will next face Villarreal on Saturday, 12 February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 36-year-old\u2019s contract will be expiring at the end of the season and there are no plans of retirement for the Croatian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":33679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2026,1778,266],"class_list":["post-11206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-carlo-ancelotti","tag-luka-modric","tag-real-madrid"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}