{"id":158042,"date":"2026-04-05T22:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T22:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/158042\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T22:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T22:10:11","slug":"bernardo-silva-looks-set-to-leave-manchester-city-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/158042\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernardo Silva looks set to leave Manchester City this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Portugal midfielder is in the final year of his contract and his future has been the subject of speculation throughout the current season.<\/p>\n<p>Lijnders appeared to confirm the 31-year-old\u2019s imminent departure while carrying out media duties on behalf of manager Pep Guardiola after Saturday\u2019s FA Cup win over Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2.80230602.jpg\" alt=\"Manchester City\u2019s Bernardo Silva celebrates scoring a goal\" data-title=\"Manchester City v AFC Bournemouth \u2013 Premier League \u2013 Etihad Stadium\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Archive\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Archive\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Martin Rickett\" data-usage-terms=\"EDITORIAL USE ONLY No use with unauthorised audio, video, data, fixture lists, club\/league logos or \u201clive\u201d services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images, no video emulation. No use in betting, games or single club\/league\/player publications.\"  \/>Silva has made 450 appearances for City and his successes include six Premier League titles and the Champions League (Martin Rickett\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>The Dutchman, responding to a question about how City might replace him, said: \u201cEvery good story comes to an end and I hope he enjoys the last months \u2013 because there is only six weeks \u2013 and has a good farewell. He deserves all the attention as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Silva has made 450 appearances for City since joining from Monaco in 2017, winning six Premier League titles and the Champions League as well as two FA Cups and five Carabao Cups.<\/p>\n<p>Lijnders acknowledged he will be a hard act to replace.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cYou never replace a player (like him) with the same kind of player because they don\u2019t exist. Bernardo Silva is unique, the way he controls games, moves, receives, leads and sees the solutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be hard because when he is not playing in a game you see how he is missed. That is one game, imagine the seasons.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Portugal midfielder is in the final year of his contract and his future has been the subject&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-158042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}