{"id":48349,"date":"2026-04-13T08:17:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T02:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=48349"},"modified":"2026-04-13T08:17:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T02:47:16","slug":"bernardo-silva-plans-city-departure-with-saudi-move-on-the-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/transfer-news\/bernardo-silva-plans-city-departure-with-saudi-move-on-the-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernardo Silva plans City departure with Saudi move on the table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bernardo Silva has decided to leave Manchester City at the end of the season, with the Portuguese midfielder set to become a free agent. The development has alerted several clubs, with Al Nassr now pushing strongly to secure his signature.<\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate that Al Nassr are actively working on a deal to bring Silva to Saudi Arabia. The club sees him as a key addition to strengthen their midfield and add more European experience to the squad. Silva\u2019s decision to not renew his contract has opened the door for such approaches.<\/p>\n<p>The experienced midfielder has been a crucial figure for City under Pep Guardiola. He played a major role in multiple Premier League title wins and their historic UEFA Champions League triumph. However, sources suggest that Silva is now looking for a new challenge after several successful seasons in England.<\/p>\n<p>There have also been hints from within the coaching setup about changes ahead. Assistant manager Pep Lijnders recently suggested that Silva could be in his final months at the club. This has further strengthened the belief that an exit is now certain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernardo Silva has decided to leave Manchester City at the end of the season, with the Portuguese midfielder set to\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":47273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4660],"tags":[2862,3686,1823,5103,3800,359,181,3539,4372,4722],"class_list":["post-48349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transfer-news","tag-bernardo-silva","tag-david-ornstein","tag-fabrizio-romano","tag-football-transfer-news","tag-manchester-city","tag-pep-guardiola","tag-ronaldo","tag-saudi-pro-league","tag-silva","tag-transfer-news"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48349","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=48349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48350,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48349\/revisions\/48350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}