{"id":649236,"date":"2026-05-05T11:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/649236\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T11:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:47:11","slug":"phil-foden-contract-man-city-midfielder-agrees-new-deal-in-principle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/649236\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Foden contract: Man City midfielder agrees new deal in principle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month, boss Tuchel said Foden’s place in the 24-man squad is not guaranteed<\/a> despite being the only player to start both games in England’s final camp before the tournament.<\/p>\n

Foden was given his first-team debut as a 17-year-old by boss Pep Guardiola and has gone on to make 365 appearances for City, winning six Premier League titles, one Champions League and two FA Cups.<\/p>\n

Despite his recent form, former Manchester United<\/a> and England captain Wayne Rooney says Foden has to “play every game” for City.<\/p>\n

“I think you have to put him in the team,” he said on the BBC’s Wayne Rooney Show.<\/a> “I love watching him play, I love his little movements, how he gets into the pockets of space. It’s not nice watching him sitting on the bench.<\/p>\n

“I think he was doing well [this season]. He’s had bad moments, but when you have a bad moment and you’re taken out and put on the sidelines for weeks on end, I just think a player of that quality, you have to just keep playing him.<\/p>\n

“You’ve got [Jeremy] Doku there who can do anything. You’ve got [Antoine] Semenyo, who can go outside, come inside. It’s real power, pace and raw speed going up against you, so I don’t know whether that’s a reason why Foden’s not playing. Pep may want a little bit more help defensively.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last month, boss Tuchel said Foden’s place in the 24-man squad is not guaranteed despite being the only…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-649236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649236","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=649236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}