{"id":511594,"date":"2026-04-03T23:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T23:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/511594\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T23:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T23:49:08","slug":"man-city-pep-guardiola-hopes-rodri-will-stay-but-unhappy-players-can-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/511594\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City: Pep Guardiola hopes Rodri will stay but unhappy players can leave"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rodri won the Ballon d’Or in 2024<\/a> but missed almost the entirety of last season after sustaining a knee injury and City failed to win a major trophy for the first time in eight years.<\/p>\n

He has missed large chunks of this campaign because of a hamstring issue but has played 28 games in all competitions, helping the side to win the Carabao Cup against Arsenal<\/a> at Wembley.<\/p>\n

During his time at City, Rodri has won four Premier League titles, the Champions League, FA Cup and three League Cups.<\/p>\n

Rodri previously said to Spanish media: “There have been many players who’ve gone down that path [playing for Atletico and Real].<\/p>\n

“Not immediately, but over time. For me, you can’t turn down the best clubs in the world.”<\/p>\n

Guardiola said Rodri has shown over time “how attached, how close he is” to City and his “contribution has been massive”.<\/p>\n

The manager confirmed he would “absolutely” not stand in the midfielder’s way if he wanted to leave, adding: “The organisation of the club is above all of us – if one player is not happy they have to leave and [we] continue the same always if they are happy – and I think he is happy.<\/p>\n

“If he is not happy just knock on the door of the sporting director, accept an offer according to his incredible quality and after that he doesn’t belong to the club – only himself.<\/p>\n

“I know what the club wants. They informed me what they want from Rodri – it is to stay, stay, stay. I always had the positive [feeling] with that but at the end I don’t know.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rodri won the Ballon d’Or in 2024 but missed almost the entirety of last season after sustaining a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-511594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511594","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=511594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}