{"id":171669,"date":"2025-10-01T01:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T01:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/171669\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T01:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T01:05:08","slug":"bernardo-silva-man-city-midfielder-knows-what-future-holds-but-not-right-time-to-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/171669\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernardo Silva: Man City midfielder knows what future holds but ‘not right time’ to reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester City captain Bernardo Silva says he knows “exactly” what he is going to do when his contract ends, but “now is not the right time to talk about it”.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old midfielder, whose deal expires at the end of the season, said it is a “big honour and responsibility” to wear the armband.<\/p>\n

The Portugal midfielder, in his ninth season with City, has been linked with a move, with reported interest from Juventus<\/a> and Benfica<\/a> this month.<\/p>\n

Silva has won every major trophy with City, including the Champions League and seven Premier League titles.<\/p>\n

He was linked with a move away earlier this year, but opted to stay<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I know exactly what I’m going to do but it’s not the time to focus on it,” he said.<\/p>\n

“It’s to do my best, to put the club back to where it belongs. We’ve had a lot of captains who’ve left but it’s for the guys who have the most experience to pass it on to the young guys.”<\/p>\n

Silva was speaking in a pre-match news conference before he faces his former club Monaco in the Champions League on Wednesday (20:00 BST).<\/p>\n

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola, asked about what Silva brings to the team, said “he cannot do better as a captain”.<\/p>\n

Silva succeeded Kevin de Bruyne in wearing the armband after the Belgian left in the summer before joining Napoli on a free transfer.<\/p>\n

“He is one of the best in training. He is an extraordinary player – so intelligent and smart. He can play in so many positions. We’re really happy to have him,” Guardiola said of Silva.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City captain Bernardo Silva says he knows “exactly” what he is going to do when his contract…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-171669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}