{"id":139859,"date":"2025-09-13T09:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T09:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/139859\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T09:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T09:36:11","slug":"pep-guardiola-ready-to-hand-forgotten-man-city-man-surprise-lifeline-with-midfielder-set-to-be-named-in-25-man-premier-league-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/139859\/","title":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola ready to hand forgotten Man City man surprise lifeline with midfielder set to be named in 25-man Premier League squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"article-teaser\" class=\"article_teaser__rjxUK\">Pep Guardiola has stunned Manchester City fans by preparing to bring Kalvin Phillips back into the fold, and could reportedly include him in the 25-man Premier League squad. The forgotten midfielder, who has not played a competitive game for City since December 2023, could now make his long-awaited return in the fiercest fixture of them all, the Manchester derby against United. For a player once deemed surplus to requirements, this is a shot at redemption he can\u2019t afford to waste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola has stunned Manchester City fans by preparing to bring Kalvin Phillips back into the fold, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,95639,2354,95640,1525,95638,1614,85],"class_list":["post-139859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-k-phillips","tag-manchester-city","tag-manchester-city-vs-manchester-united","tag-manchester-united","tag-p-guardiola","tag-premier-league","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}