{"id":139194,"date":"2019-07-29T12:32:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T11:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=139194"},"modified":"2019-07-29T12:32:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T11:32:14","slug":"epl-de-bruyne-sends-message-to-manchester-citys-rodri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=139194","title":{"rendered":"EPL: De Bruyne sends message to Manchester City&#8217;s Rodri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/EPL-De-Bruyne-sends-message-to-Manchester-Citys-Rodri.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Manchester City playmaker, Kevin De Bruyne, has backed the club\u2019s new signing, Rodri, to succeed at Etihad after joining Pep Guardiola\u2019s side from Atletico Madrid earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST had reported that Rodri became Manchester City\u2019s club-record signing when he joined the Premier League champions from Atletico Madrid for \u00a362million.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola signed the 23-year-old with the idea he would be the long-term replacement for Fernandinho at Etihad.<\/p>\n<p>But De Bruyne believes Rodri is the right man to replace Fernandinho at Man City\u2019s defensive midfield role.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Rodri is doing really well,\u201d De Bruyne was quoted by Goal as saying ahead of Man City\u2019s Community Shield against Liverpool on August 4.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously it\u2019s a position that is really difficult to find but I think they definitely found the right man.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has got time enough to settle in and I think he is going to do well.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City playmaker, Kevin De Bruyne, has backed the club\u2019s new signing, Rodri, to succeed at Etihad after joining Pep Guardiola\u2019s side from Atletico Madrid earlier this month. DAILY POST had reported that Rodri became Manchester City\u2019s club-record signing when he joined the Premier League champions from Atletico Madrid for \u00a362million. Manchester City manager, Pep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/139195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}