{"id":554999,"date":"2026-07-23T01:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T01:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/554999\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T01:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T01:57:08","slug":"real-madrid-hold-secret-meeting-with-rodris-agents-manchester-citys-condition-poses-an-obstacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/554999\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid Hold Secret Meeting With Rodri&#8217;s Agents, Manchester City&#8217;s Condition Poses an Obstacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"article-teaser\">Real Madrid moved towards the Spain star as soon as the World Cup ended.<\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid have made their final decision on a move for Spain international Rodri, the Manchester City midfielder, according to press reports.<\/p>\n<p>French newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lequipe.fr\/Football\/Article\/Le-real-madrid-prepare-son-prochain-gros-coup-au-mercato-piste-rodri-est-dispose-a-rejoindre-l-equipe-de-jose-mourinho\/1706440?utm_source=Social%20media&amp;utm_campaign=twitter&amp;utm_content=photo&amp;utm_medium=Social%20media\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;L&#8217;Equipe&#8221;<\/a> report that the Real Madrid board have made up their minds to press ahead with an attempt to sign Rodri, after a shift in the stance of club president Florentino Perez, who was not initially convinced by the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Read also<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">Two Al Ahly and Egypt national team stars on the Saudi federation&#8217;s table<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">Barcelona anger their fans with a picture of a Real Madrid player<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish club now feel they need a player capable of filling the role once occupied by German star Toni Kroos, who retired two years ago. They have settled on Rodri as the ideal fit.<\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid, though, do not want to pay more than 60 million euros. Manchester City are holding out for 100 million to agree a sale.<\/p>\n<p>For its part, &#8220;Sky Sports&#8221; report that the chances of Rodri joining Real Madrid this summer are growing. A secret meeting at a Madrid restaurant brought together club officials and the player&#8217;s agents, and it ended with the board resolving to keep working on the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Madrid are also preparing to offer a contract running until 2030, and are currently working to reach an agreement with Rodri over personal terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Real Madrid moved towards the Spain star as soon as the World Cup ended. Real Madrid have made&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[57730,23413,251845,85,46,18617,2617,251846,2619,4029,32749,105,9461],"class_list":["post-554999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-afc-bournemouth","tag-espanyol","tag-espanyol-vs-real-madrid","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-laliga","tag-manchester-city","tag-manchester-city-vs-afc-bournemouth","tag-premier-league","tag-real-madrid","tag-rodri","tag-sports","tag-transfers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}