{"id":15464,"date":"2025-05-30T08:45:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T03:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=601986"},"modified":"2025-05-30T08:46:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T03:16:54","slug":"de-bruynes-new-club-confirmed-this-clubs-director-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/de-bruynes-new-club-confirmed-this-clubs-director-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"De Bruyne\u2019s new club confirmed; this director reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin de Bruyne who decided months ago that he is leaving Manchester City is on the verge of joining a new side as a free agent. City gave him a superb farewell and now the new club search is about to be ended. There are reports that Napoli are very close to securing him for the next season. The director of Napoli revealed in a recent interview that they are close to reaching an agreement with De Bruyne.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin De Bruyne is on the verge of beginning a new chapter in his illustrious career, with reports suggesting he is close to signing with Serie A side Napoli as a free agent. The Belgian midfielder, who had already made up his mind months ago to leave Manchester City, was given a heartfelt farewell by the club, marking the end of a trophy-laden spell at the Etihad.<\/p>\n<p>After nearly a decade of brilliance in the Premier League, De Bruyne is now exploring a fresh challenge\u2014and Napoli appears to be his next destination. The Italian club\u2019s sporting director recently confirmed the ongoing negotiations, offering fans a significant update.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are close to getting the De Bruyne deal done. The negotiations are now well underway and we\u2019re closer, definitely closer,\u201d the Napoli director revealed in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>If completed, this move would mark a major coup for Napoli as they look to rebuild under their new project following a turbulent 2023-24 campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin de Bruyne who decided months ago that he is leaving Manchester City is on the verge of joining a new side as a free agent. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":36009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1823,3796,1939,179,671,3991],"class_list":["post-15464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-fabrizio-romano","tag-football","tag-kevin-de-bruyne","tag-napoli","tag-serie-a","tag-summer-transfer-window"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15464","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=15464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}