{"id":504263,"date":"2026-06-17T11:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T11:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/504263\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T11:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T11:46:09","slug":"bernardo-silva-joins-real-madrid-on-free-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/504263\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernardo Silva joins Real Madrid on free transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Midfielder Bernardo Silva has joined Real Madrid on a two-year deal, linking up with manager Jose Mourinho.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Silva, 31, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c624x7wvlv4o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">left Manchester City<\/a> at the end of last season, bringing an end to a trophy-laden nine-year spell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Silva was heavily linked with a move to Spain, with Barcelona and Atletico Madrid also reportedly chasing his signature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He becomes Real&#8217;s second signing of the summer as a free transfer after defender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cx2xp7gv09lo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Cucurella joined<\/a> from Chelsea in a deal worth \u00a352m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Real did not win a trophy last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They finished eight points behind La Liga champions FC Barcelona and were knocked out in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Silva is at the World Cup with Portugal and is expected to play a pivotal role for his country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Real are understood to be targeting departing Inter Milan defender Denzel Dumfries, while France defender Ibrahima Konate is set to join after leaving Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Defender Antonio Rudiger this week signed a contract extension with Real until 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Midfielder Bernardo Silva has joined Real Madrid on a two-year deal, linking up with manager Jose Mourinho. Silva,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-504263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504263","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=504263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}