{"id":15756,"date":"2025-07-23T08:44:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T03:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=619733"},"modified":"2025-07-23T08:44:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T03:14:58","slug":"man-city-eyeing-a-move-for-this-barcelonas-star-defender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/man-city-eyeing-a-move-for-this-barcelonas-star-defender\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City eyeing a move for this Barcelona\u2019s star defender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City are planning to move for the Barcelona\u2019s defender in this summer transfer window. Barcelona\u2019s central defender Jules Kound\u00e9, who also plays as a right-back is generating interest from England. City eyeing a move for him but the deal looks difficult as Hansi Flick and the club sees him as one of the important players in the squad. No contacts have been made yet but could be possible in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester City are reportedly keeping tabs on Barcelona defender Jules Kound\u00e9 as they look to strengthen their backline in the ongoing summer transfer window. The versatile Frenchman, who can operate both as a centre-back and a right-back, is attracting interest from the Premier League champions.<\/p>\n<p>Kound\u00e9 has been a key figure for Barcelona since his arrival from Sevilla, and new manager Hansi Flick is believed to view him as an integral part of his plans going forward. The club is not keen on letting him go, making any potential deal complicated.<\/p>\n<p>While Manchester City have yet to make formal contact with Barcelona or the player\u2019s representatives, sources suggest a move could materialize in the coming days. For now, it remains a situation to watch as City consider their defensive options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City are planning to move for the Barcelona\u2019s defender in this summer transfer window. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":34823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[681,661,3686,1823,3796,1806,3800,359,3991],"class_list":["post-15756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-barca","tag-barcelona","tag-david-ornstein","tag-fabrizio-romano","tag-football","tag-jules-kounde","tag-manchester-city","tag-pep-guardiola","tag-summer-transfer-window"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15756","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=15756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}