{"id":361912,"date":"2026-08-03T22:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T22:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/361912\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T22:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T22:04:13","slug":"will-de-bruyne-play-alongside-messi-at-inter-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/361912\/","title":{"rendered":"Will De Bruyne play alongside Messi at Inter Miami?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A source at Inter Miami has confirmed the club&#8217;s position on signing Belgian Kevin De Bruyne, particularly after the reports circulating about the American club entering negotiations with the Belgium national team midfielder.\n<\/p>\n<p>The source explained, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/story\/_\/id\/49521651\/no-talks-inter-miami-kevin-de-bruyne\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in statements to the &#8220;ESPN&#8221; network<\/a>, that Inter Miami never initiated contact with De Bruyne, nor held any talks with the Belgium midfielder, despite the ongoing reports linking him with a move to the club.\n<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the source said, Inter Miami will focus on making the most of their current squad during the Leagues Cup and the upcoming Major League Soccer matches.\n<\/p>\n<p>Home to Lionel Messi, the South Florida club recently unveiled new signing Casemiro at a ceremony in front of fans at Chase Stadium, before his first appearance on home turf on Saturday evening.\n<\/p>\n<p>Casemiro joined on a free transfer, penning a contract that runs until the end of the 2027 Major League Soccer season, with an option to extend until June 2029.\n<\/p>\n<p>Inter Miami have also signed Ecuadorian defender Fricson Caicedo on loan from Costa Rican club FC Moravia FCM until the end of the spring 2027 Major League Soccer season.\n<\/p>\n<p>Second in the Eastern Conference on 38 points from 18 matches, Inter Miami head into the run after a 2-2 draw with Columbus Crew in the last round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A source at Inter Miami has confirmed the club&#8217;s position on signing Belgian Kevin De Bruyne, particularly after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5429,147027,10133,8003,123,125,124,14355,147026,22956],"class_list":["post-361912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-inter-miami-cf","tag-k-de-bruyne","tag-l-messi","tag-major-league-soccer","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-serie-a","tag-ssc-napoli","tag-transfers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}