{"id":587987,"date":"2026-04-05T23:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/587987\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T23:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:45:08","slug":"bernardo-silva-manchester-city-assistant-pep-lijnders-in-departure-hint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/587987\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernardo Silva: Manchester City assistant Pep Lijnders in departure hint"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester City<\/a> assistant manager Pep Lijnders has hinted midfielder Bernardo Silva’s nine-year spell at the club will end this summer, saying “every good story comes to an end”.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old’s contract expires at the end of the season. He has not yet signed an extension and has been linked with La Liga leaders Barcelona, Serie A side Juventus and clubs in America.<\/p>\n

Lijnders was on media duty after Saturday’s 4-0 FA Cup quarter-final win<\/a> over Liverpool<\/a> with manager Pep Guardiola serving a touchline ban, and reflected on the importance of the Portuguese international to City.<\/p>\n

“You never replace a player with the same kind of player because they don’t exist,” he said. <\/p>\n

“Bernardo Silva is unique. The way he controls games, the way he moves, the way he receives, the way he leads, the way he sees the solutions. All these things.<\/p>\n

“But it will be hard because, as I said, in the game, when he is not playing you will see how he is missed – and that’s one game. Imagine a season.<\/p>\n

“But every good story comes to an end, and I hope he enjoys the last months – there are only six weeks – and has a good farewell. <\/p>\n

“He deserves all that attention as well.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City assistant manager Pep Lijnders has hinted midfielder Bernardo Silva’s nine-year spell at the club will end…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-587987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587987","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=587987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}