{"id":44167,"date":"2026-02-16T09:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T04:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=44167"},"modified":"2026-02-16T09:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T04:02:14","slug":"i-didnt-know-trafford-opens-up-on-shock-after-man-city-signed-donnarumma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/premier-league\/i-didnt-know-trafford-opens-up-on-shock-after-man-city-signed-donnarumma\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Didn\u2019t Know\u201d: Trafford opens up on shock after Man City signed Donnarumma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City goalkeeper James Trafford has opened up about the uncertainty surrounding his future after admitting he was unaware that the club would sign Gianluigi Donnarumma during the previous summer transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in comments shared by Fabrizio Romano, Trafford revealed that the arrival of Donnarumma, along with another goalkeeper signing in the same window, significantly limited his chances of regular first-team football at Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve got a contract, so I don\u2019t know what happens next season,\u201d Trafford said. \u201cI just know that I\u2019ll take it a day at a time and try and improve,\u201d he added in an interview with Sam Lee.<\/p>\n<p>City\u2019s decision to recruit two goalkeepers in the same transfer window reshaped the competition for places under Pep Guardiola. With Donnarumma coming in as a high-profile signing and another keeper also added to the squad, Trafford\u2019s pathway to consistent minutes became increasingly restricted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City goalkeeper James Trafford has opened up about the uncertainty surrounding his future after admitting he was unaware that\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":44168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4650],"tags":[2518,3686,1823,2297,4031,4162,4561,3800],"class_list":["post-44167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","tag-david","tag-david-ornstein","tag-fabrizio-romano","tag-gianluigi-donnarumma","tag-james-trafford","tag-january-transfer-window","tag-keeper","tag-manchester-city"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44167","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=44167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44169,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44167\/revisions\/44169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}