{"id":89572,"date":"2025-08-22T20:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T20:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/89572\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T20:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T20:49:07","slug":"ruben-dias-commits-his-future-to-special-manchester-city-until-2029-manchester-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/89572\/","title":{"rendered":"R\u00faben Dias commits his future to \u2018special\u2019 Manchester City until 2029 | Manchester City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">R\u00faben Dias has signed a two-year contract extension with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/manchestercity\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester City<\/a> that keeps him at the club until 2029, with the central defender saying he \u201ccouldn\u2019t imagine playing anywhere else\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Since signing for City from Benfica <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2020\/sep\/29\/ruben-dias-i-could-not-turn-down-chance-to-join-manchester-city\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in September 2020 for \u00a362m<\/a>, Dias has claimed 10 trophies under Pep Guardiola and was a key member of the team that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/live\/2023\/jun\/10\/manchester-city-v-inter-champions-league-final-2023-live-score-updates#:~:text=Manchester%20City%20beat%20Inter%201,happened%20%7C%20Champions%20League%20%7C%20The%20Guardian\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">won the treble in 2023<\/a>. In all he has played 223 times for the club, has 68 Portugal caps and was the Football Writers\u2019 Association Footballer of the Year in his debut season in England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cMy job now is to be the best I can be for the duration of this contract, so that I can play my part in helping us challenge for more silverware,\u201d said the 28-year-old. \u201cI want to thank my teammates, Pep, Hugo [Viana, City\u2019s sporting director], the coaching staff and everyone at the club. This is such a special place, and I am grateful every single day for the support I receive. Now the hard work begins, and I want to promise the fans that I will give everything to win more trophies and bring more success to City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cI love Manchester \u2013 it is my home now \u2013 and I love the Manchester City fans,\u201d added Dias. \u201cTheir support from day one has been absolutely unbelievable, and I appreciate them a lot. When I think about the trophies we have won and the way we have played our football during my time, I couldn\u2019t imagine playing anywhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"R\u00faben Dias has signed a two-year contract extension with Manchester City that keeps him at the club until&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-89572","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\/89572","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=89572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}