{"id":12615,"date":"2023-06-16T16:17:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T10:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=322879"},"modified":"2023-06-16T16:17:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T10:47:06","slug":"man-city-closing-in-on-deal-to-sign-mateo-kovacic-from-chelsea-worth-e40-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/man-city-closing-in-on-deal-to-sign-mateo-kovacic-from-chelsea-worth-e40-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City closing in on deal to sign Mateo Kovacic from Chelsea worth \u20ac40 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City is making significant progress in their chase of signing Croatian midfielder Mateo Kovacic from Chelsea, with a deal worth \u20ac40 million reportedly on the table. The Premier League champions have made Kovacic their top priority in the midfield position for this summer\u2019s transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>Kovacic has established himself as a highly talented and various positioned player during his time at Chelsea. Since joining the Blues in 2018 from Real Madrid, the player has become an integral part of the squad and has made valuable contributions to the team\u2019s success.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester City, under the guidance of manager Pep Guardiola, are known for their fluid and dynamic style of play. The addition of Kovacic would provide them with even more depth and quality in midfield, enhancing their ability to dominate possession and control the tempo of matches.<\/p>\n<p>Kovacic\u2019s technical skills, vision, and ability to dictate play from the center of the park make him an ideal fit for Guardiola\u2019s system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City has set their priority in transfers this summer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":34890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[312,220,3661,359],"class_list":["post-12615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-chelsea","tag-manchester-city-f-c","tag-mateo-kovacic","tag-pep-guardiola"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12615","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\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}