{"id":608049,"date":"2026-04-16T13:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/608049\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T13:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:27:08","slug":"bernardo-silva-to-leave-manchester-city-at-end-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/608049\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernardo Silva to leave Manchester City at end of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/manchester-city\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester City<\/a> captain Bernardo Silva will leave the club when his contract expires at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Portugal midfielder, 31, has scored 76 goals and made 77 assists in 451 appearances for City since joining from Monaco in 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last month&#8217;s Carabao Cup victory was his 15th major honour with City, including the Treble in 2022-23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Silva also helped City win the Premier League title with 100 points in 2017-18, all four domestic trophies in 2018-19 and four consecutive league titles between 2021 and 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What we won and achieved together is a legacy that will forever be cherished in my heart,&#8221; he said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DXMQz94COtT\/?igsh=MThjd3lxbnhraWd2Zg%3D%3D&amp;img_index=2\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on Instagram., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The Centurions, the domestic quadruple, the Treble, the four in a row and much more. It wasn&#8217;t that bad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Silva is the only player from City&#8217;s modern era in the top 10 of the club&#8217;s all-time appearances list and is currently joint-eighth with Mike Summerbee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was named club captain following the departure of Kevin de Bruyne at the end of last season and has won six Premier League titles in eight seasons with City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Blues are currently second in the league and play Southampton in the FA Cup semi-finals on 25 April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My main goal as a player was to always play with passion so you guys (the fans) could feel proud and well represented on the pitch,&#8221; Silva added. &#8220;I hope you felt that every single game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I arrived as a Man City player, I leave as one more of you, a Man City supporter for life. Keep supporting this young team and I&#8217;m pretty sure they will bring you a lot of new fantastic memories in the future. Let&#8217;s enjoy together these last weeks and fight for what this season still brings us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City captain Bernardo Silva will leave the club when his contract expires at the end of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-608049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}