Manchester City have rejected an offer of \u00a338.5m (\u20ac45m) from Barcelona for Rodri and want at least \u00a360m before allowing Spain\u2019s World Cup-winning captain to depart.<\/p>\n
Barcelona have emerged as Rodri\u2019s preferred destination after talks with Real Madrid<\/a> broke down this week. It is understood that the 30-year-old, who is now in the final year of his contract at City, has agreed personal terms with the Spanish champions after indicating that he would like to return to his homeland following the departure of Pep Guardiola.<\/p>\n Rodri moved to the Etihad in 2019<\/a> from Atl\u00e9tico Madrid and has turned down the offer of a lucrative extension. Yet City are believed to be adamant that he will not be allowed to leave for less than their asking price. Barcelona are continuing negotiations in the hope of reaching a compromise.<\/p>\n Rodri, who won the World Cup Golden Ball as the tournament\u2019s best player last month, spoke to Bar\u00e7a\u2019s manager, Hansi Flick, and sporting director, Deco, about a potential move on Wednesday.<\/p>\n The Spanish champions will be without Frenkie de Jong for several months after the Netherlands midfielder sustained a knee injury and have targeted Rodri as a replacement. He has had minor surgery on his back and will miss most of City\u2019s pre-season programme.<\/p>\n City have signed Elliot Anderson from Nottingham Forest for \u00a3116m<\/a> and remain in negotiations with Lille over a deal for Ayyoub Bouaddi<\/a>. The Morocco midfielder could cost up to \u00a380m but they could be tempted to bring in a more experienced replacement for Rodri should he depart, with Chelsea\u2019s Enzo Fern\u00e1ndez among those thought to be under consideration. The 25-year-old is also wanted by Real, whose manager, Jos\u00e9 Mourinho is said to not to have the news of being gazumped by their great rivals well. Reports in Spain have claimed that the 63-year-old is unhappy after making the signing of a central midfielder his priority on returning for a second stint at the Santiago Bernab\u00e9u.<\/p>\n Real have already brought in the winger Yan Diomande for \u00a3115m<\/a> and Marc Cucurella<\/a>, Bernardo Silva, Ibrahima Konat\u00e9, Denzel Dumfries and Carlos Esp\u00ed, so they may have to balance the books by selling either Aur\u00e9lien Tchouam\u00e9ni and Eduardo Camavinga if they want to pursue Argentinian Fern\u00e1ndez.<\/p>\n Crystal Palace have confirmed the signing of Takehiro Tomiyasu after a successful trial period. The former Arsenal defender has been training with Palace during pre-season and has done enough to earn an initial 12-month deal with the option of extending that by another two years. Tomiyasu becomes new manager Pierre Sage\u2019s second signing of the summer after the arrival of \u00d3scar Mingueza on a free transfer. Palace are expected to complete a deal for the USA youth international Zavier Gozo from Real Salt Lake in MLS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City have rejected an offer of \u00a338.5m (\u20ac45m) from Barcelona for Rodri and want at least \u00a360m…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-730731","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730731","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=730731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}