{"id":586823,"date":"2026-08-08T08:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T08:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/586823\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T08:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T08:42:08","slug":"geronimo-rulli-man-city-agree-deal-to-sign-marseille-goalkeeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/586823\/","title":{"rendered":"Geronimo Rulli: Man City agree deal to sign Marseille goalkeeper"},"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> have agreed a deal to sign Argentina goalkeeper Geronimo Rulli from Marseille for \u00a31.7m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 34-year-old returns to Etihad Stadium &#8211; where he spent the 2016-17 season without making a first-team appearance &#8211; and has signed a two-year deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rulli famously scored a penalty in Villarreal&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/57224112\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2021 Europa League final victory over Manchester United,<\/a> before denying opposite number David de Gea to decide the marathon shootout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has won eight caps for Argentina and was part of the squad that won the 2022 World Cup and 2024 Copa America.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rulli has also had spells at clubs around Europe including Real Sociedad, Montpellier and Ajax.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He comes in as a replacement for England goalkeeper James Trafford, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c0l592513y9o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">left City to join Leeds<\/a> in a deal worth up to \u00a345m earlier this week, and will be understudy to number one Gianluigi Donnarumma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City have agreed a deal to sign Argentina goalkeeper Geronimo Rulli from Marseille for \u00a31.7m. The 34-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-586823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586823","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=586823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}