{"id":7113,"date":"2026-07-28T19:06:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=7113"},"modified":"2026-07-28T19:06:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:06:30","slug":"man-city-defender-josko-gvardiol-signs-contract-extension-through-2031","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=7113","title":{"rendered":"Man City Defender Jo\u0161ko Gvardiol Signs Contract Extension Through 2031"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            POPULAR SEARCHES\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            BROWSE BY\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-273d04fe>Jo\u0161ko Gvardiol has signed a new five-year contract at Manchester City until 2031.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-273d04fe>The Croatia defender joined City in 2023 and had two years remaining on his deal at the Etihad Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-273d04fe>&#8220;As soon as I knew City wanted to renew my contract, I felt straight away it was what I wanted,&#8221; Gvardiol said. &#8220;It\u2019s the best club in the world to be at.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-273d04fe>&#8220;The players we have here are amazing. This is a world-class squad that is young and full of potential. I truly believe we will have a lot of success in the coming years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-273d04fe>The 24-year-old Gvardiol joined City from Leipzig for 90 million euros ($99.2 million), ranking him among the most expensive defenders in soccer history. He has won five major trophies, including the Premier League title and FA Cup during his time at the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-273d04fe>&#8220;Josko is a player this Club really believes in. He is young, an outstanding professional and already one of the best defenders in the world,&#8221; City director of football Hugo Viana said. &#8220;Manchester City are committed to keeping our best talent, which is why we are so happy this new contract has been agreed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-273d04fe><i>Reporting by The Associated Press.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POPULAR SEARCHES BROWSE BY Jo\u0161ko Gvardiol has signed a new five-year contract at Manchester City until 2031. The Croatia defender joined City in 2023 and had two years remaining on his deal at the Etihad Stadium. &#8220;As soon as I knew City wanted to renew my contract, I felt straight away it was what I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}