{"id":14108,"date":"2024-07-22T14:28:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T08:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=458423"},"modified":"2024-07-22T14:28:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T08:58:56","slug":"saudi-sources-deny-kevin-de-bruyne-deal-with-al-ittihad-club-focused-on-moussa-diaby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/saudi-sources-deny-kevin-de-bruyne-deal-with-al-ittihad-club-focused-on-moussa-diaby\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi sources deny Kevin De Bruyne deal with Al-Ittihad; club focused on Moussa Diaby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi sources have downplayed reports suggesting that Kevin De Bruyne has reached an agreement with Al-Ittihad. According to these sources, claims of De Bruyne agreeing to terms with the Saudi club are not true.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Ittihad is currently concentrating on securing a deal for Moussa Diaby, which is expected to be finalized soon. The next priority for the Saudi club is to find a new goalkeeper. Although there have been discussions with \u00c9derson, negotiations are proving to be challenging.<\/p>\n<p>Despite ongoing speculation, De Bruyne, who has a year remaining on his contract with Manchester City, has not confirmed any deal with Al-Ittihad. Reports from Italy had suggested that the Belgian midfielder had agreed on personal terms with the Saudi club. However, discussions between Al-Ittihad and Manchester City regarding the transfer fee are still underway. If these talks succeed, De Bruyne may leave the Premier League a year before his contract ends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi sources have downplayed reports suggesting that Kevin De Bruyne has reached an agreement with Al-Ittihad. According to these sources,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":35966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1939],"class_list":["post-14108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-kevin-de-bruyne"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14108","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\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}