{"id":32000,"date":"2025-07-30T08:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T08:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/32000\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T08:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T08:11:09","slug":"transfer-news-bayern-munich-sign-luis-diaz-from-liverpool-for-65-5m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/32000\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer news: Bayern Munich sign Luis Diaz from Liverpool for \u00a365.5m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why have Man City signed Trafford?published at 08:27 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>08:27 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"James Trafford\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/26cf55cf-53f6-4fc1-92cf-6a7494493f1f.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">City academy graduate Trafford, 22, signed for Burnley for up to \u00a319m in July 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He impressed last season as Scott Parker&#8217;s side won promotion back to the Premier League &#8211; keeping 29 clean sheets across 45 Championship games &#8211; and was named in the division&#8217;s team of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">City had a buy-back clause for Trafford and also matching rights, allowing them to equal any offer from another club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They moved for the player following a \u00a327m bid from Newcastle &#8211; and Trafford opted for a return to Manchester.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He made 73 appearances for Burnley, including 28 in the Premier League in the 2023-24 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trafford has represented England from under-17 to under-21 level, and was part of the winning European Championship squad of 2023, during which he did not concede a goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He received his first senior international call-up in 2024 but has yet to make his debut at that level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why have Man City signed Trafford?published at 08:27 British Summer Time 08:27 BST Image source, Getty Images City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-32000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32000","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=32000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}