{"id":2072,"date":"2026-06-08T17:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=2072"},"modified":"2026-06-08T17:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:55:08","slug":"if-he-were-an-arsehole-antonio-rudiger-receives-backing-and-looks-set-to-stay-at-real-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=2072","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;If he were an arsehole&#8230;&#8221;: Antonio R\u00fcdiger receives backing and looks set to stay at Real Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\" data-affiliate-button-variant=\"D\">\n<div>\n<p>The 33-year-old&#8217;s current deal expires at the end of the month, but reports indicate that the Berlin-born centre-back has already signed a one-year extension. Following Perez&#8217;s successful re-election, the official announcement of the deal is expected to be a mere formality.<\/p>\n<p>Yet R\u00fcdiger&#8217;s future is only one part of a wider shake-up at Concha Espina, as Real quietly reshape their squad for next season. <\/p>\n<p>Further transfer announcements are imminent: Liverpool&#8217;s Ibrahima Konate and Inter Milan&#8217;s Denzel Dumfries are expected to follow R\u00fcdiger to the Bernab\u00e9u. Meanwhile, a familiar face is returning to the dugout: Jos\u00e9 Mourinho is moving from Benfica back to Real, where he is expected to lead the club to fresh silverware.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en\/lists\/if-he-were-an-arsehole-antonio-ruediger-receives-backing-and-looks-set-to-stay-at-real-madrid\/width:1;height:1\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 33-year-old&#8217;s current deal expires at the end of the month, but reports indicate that the Berlin-born centre-back has already&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}