{"id":596517,"date":"2026-08-18T00:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T00:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/596517\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T00:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T00:44:09","slug":"rodri-lands-in-barcelona-to-complete-dream-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/596517\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodri lands in Barcelona to complete ‘dream’ move"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spain midfielder Rodri said it is his “dream” to play for Barcelona after he arrived in the city to complete his move from Manchester City.<\/p>\n

Barcelona have agreed to pay City about \u00a365m<\/a>, with the 30-year-old to sign a four-year contract with the La Liga champions.<\/p>\n

“I’m very happy to have arrived. The last few days have been intense, but I’m glad everything has been sorted out. Of course, playing for FC Barcelona is a dream,” Rodri told journalists at the airport on Monday.<\/p>\n

“I can’t wait to be with my team-mates, many of whom I already know from the national team. It’s time to get to work and give my very best.”<\/p>\n

Rodri added that he is aiming to win “the Champions League and everything else that comes our way” with Barca.<\/p>\n

The 2024 Ballon d’Or winner<\/a> made 298 appearances across seven trophy-laden seasons at City after joining them from Atletico Madrid in 2019 for a then club record \u00a362.8m<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He missed much of the 2024-25 campaign after sustaining a serious knee injury, and parts of last season were disrupted by a hamstring issue.<\/p>\n

However, he was back to his best at the World Cup this summer, leading Spain to their second title and being named player of the tournament<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rodri leaves City having won 12 major honours, including four Premier League titles, two FA Cups, three EFL Cups and the Champions League in 2022-23.<\/p>\n

Last week, City rejected Barca’s opening offer of \u00a338.5m for Rodri, who was set to enter the final year of his contract at Etihad Stadium.<\/p>\n

It had looked like Real Madrid would be his next destination but La Liga rivals Barcelona stepped up their efforts to complete the signing in recent days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spain midfielder Rodri said it is his “dream” to play for Barcelona after he arrived in the city…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-596517","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\/596517","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=596517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}