{"id":3852,"date":"2026-06-18T02:11:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T02:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=3852"},"modified":"2026-06-18T02:11:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T02:11:43","slug":"bernardo-silva-joins-real-madrid-on-free-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=3852","title":{"rendered":"Bernardo Silva joins Real Madrid on free transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Midfielder Bernardo Silva has joined Real Madrid on a two-year deal, linking up with manager Jose Mourinho.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Silva, 31, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c624x7wvlv4o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">left Manchester City<\/a> at the end of last season, bringing an end to a trophy-laden nine-year spell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Silva was heavily linked with a move to Spain, with Barcelona and Atletico Madrid also reportedly chasing his signature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He becomes Real&#8217;s second signing of the summer as a free transfer after defender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cx2xp7gv09lo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Marc Cucurella joined<\/a> from Chelsea in a deal worth \u00a352m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Real did not win a trophy last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They finished eight points behind La Liga champions FC Barcelona and were knocked out in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Silva is at the World Cup with Portugal and is expected to play a pivotal role for his country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Real are understood to be targeting departing Inter Milan defender Denzel Dumfries, while France defender Ibrahima Konate is set to join after leaving Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Defender Antonio Rudiger this week signed a contract extension with Real until 2027.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Midfielder Bernardo Silva has joined Real Madrid on a two-year deal, linking up with manager Jose Mourinho. Silva, 31, left&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3852","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\/3852","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=3852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}