{"id":391713,"date":"2026-04-10T14:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/391713\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T14:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:37:11","slug":"bernardo-silva-future-pep-guardiola-wants-captain-to-finish-career-at-man-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/391713\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernardo Silva future: Pep Guardiola wants captain to ‘finish career’ at Man City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lijnders made the comments after City’s 4-0 FA quarter-final win against Liverpool<\/a> last weekend, with Guardiola unable to fulfil media duties as he was serving a touchline ban. <\/p>\n

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

Silva, a 2017 signing from French club Monaco, made his 450th appearance for City in the EFL Cup final success over Arsenal<\/a> last month. <\/p>\n

The 31-year-old was made club captain last summer following the departure of Kevin De Bruyne. <\/p>\n

“He is not the tallest one, the most muscular one, or score 50 goals or make 50 assists a season,” added Guardiola.<\/p>\n

“These are the type of players that are spotlighted and everyone talks about. From nine years, I know him quite well and for what a manager requires.<\/p>\n

“All managers would say how much they love him because he is incredibly competitive, has a fire inside him always. In the toughest moments and on the biggest stages, he is always there.<\/p>\n

“He has been an incredible signing for us, incredible. I love this club and I would love if he could stay and finish his career here but I do not know. He will decide what he will decide. It is his decision.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lijnders made the comments after City’s 4-0 FA quarter-final win against Liverpool last weekend, with Guardiola unable to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-391713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}