{"id":267667,"date":"2026-08-18T18:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T18:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267667\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T18:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T18:48:08","slug":"rodri-completes-barcelona-switch-after-glittering-career-at-manchester-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267667\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodri completes Barcelona switch after glittering career at Manchester City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The midfielder, who was named player of the tournament in Spain\u2019s World Cup triumph this summer, completed a \u00a365.4million move on Tuesday following a medical with the Catalan giants.<\/p>\n<p>Rodri spent seven seasons with City, helping them win the Premier League on four occasions and scoring the only goal when they edged out Inter Milan in the 2023 Champions League final.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The master of space and time touches down in Barcelona \u23f1\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BESJxrGg3w\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/BESJxrGg3w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FCBarcelona\/status\/2089754425812275488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBarcelona and Manchester City have reached an agreement for Rodri, who is committing to the Catalan club until June 30 2030,\u201d read a statement from the LaLiga champions on their website.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The midfielder, who was named player of the tournament in Spain\u2019s World Cup triumph this summer, completed a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-267667","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\/267667","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=267667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}