{"id":324904,"date":"2011-03-20T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/20\/barcelona-defender-dani-alves-set-to-join-manchester-city-after-contract-talks-fail-report\/"},"modified":"2011-03-20T18:25:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T18:25:00","slug":"barcelona-defender-dani-alves-set-to-join-manchester-city-after-contract-talks-fail-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/20\/barcelona-defender-dani-alves-set-to-join-manchester-city-after-contract-talks-fail-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona defender Dani Alves set to join Manchester City after contract talks fail &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h4>20 Mar 2011 18:25:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"65.5476059439\">\n<div>\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dani Alves of Barcelona\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/84c02de2124917_news.jpg.jpg\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dani Alves of Barcelona<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <span readability=\"37.0334346505\"><\/p>\n<p>        <span><span><span><em>For all the latest reports and transfer rumours, visit our dedicated section <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2559\/rumours\/archive\/1\">here<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/spain\/125\/barcelona\">Barcelona<\/a> right back <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/brazil\/1507\/daniel-alves\">Dani Alves<\/a> has been linked with a move to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/109\/manchester-city\">Manchester City<\/a> once again as talks on a new contract have reportedly failed.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/02\/26\/2369183\/manchester-city-target-dani-alves-or-gregory-van-der-wiel\"><br \/><strong>Goal.com UK <\/strong>exclusively revealed in February that City were monitoring the Brazilian<\/a>, and it now seems that contract talks with the Nou Camp club have failed, making a move more likely.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazil international has been on City\u2019s radar since Yaya Toure was signed from Barcelona last summer and says he would consider a switch to the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea have not renewed their interest in the player after David Luiz joined the Stamford Bridge club from Benfica in January. <\/p>\n<p>Toure enjoys a \u00a3220,000-a-week deal and Alves has been in talks to land the same type of contract with the Spanish giants, according to <em>News of the World<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Roberto Mancini is said to be cautious as they would think twice before recruiting the player who apparently is using a move to the Eastlands as a pawn in his game.<\/p>\n<p>Alves said: &#8220;I don&#8217;t feel Barcelona have been doing their utmost to renew my contract, <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I want is for them to value me depending on my importance and influence within the squad. If they do that, I&#8217;ll be over the moon. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf not, thanks for these years at the club.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old joined the Camp Nou from Sevilla in 2008 but his contract does not expire until <br \/>next year.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona have settled new contract deals with most of the first team over the past year with the exception of Alves\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>        <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/3b4e10aebeacon.dll_351.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Originally posted here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/03\/20\/2403775\/barcelona-defender-dani-alves-set-to-join-manchester-city\" title=\"Barcelona defender Dani Alves set to join Manchester City after contract talks fail - report\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barcelona defender Dani Alves set to join Manchester City after contract talks fail &#8211; report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 20 Mar 2011 18:25:00 Dani Alves of Barcelona Related Links Teams Players For all the latest reports and transfer rumours, visit our dedicated section here Barcelona right back Dani Alves has been linked with a move to Manchester City once again as talks on a new contract have reportedly failed. Goal.com UK exclusively revealed in February that City were monitoring the Brazilian , and it now seems that contract talks with the Nou Camp club have failed, making a move more likely. The Brazil international has been on City\u2019s radar since Yaya Toure was signed from Barcelona last summer and says he would consider a switch to the Premier League. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Barcelona defender Dani Alves set to join Manchester City after contract talks fail - report - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/20\/barcelona-defender-dani-alves-set-to-join-manchester-city-after-contract-talks-fail-report\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Barcelona defender Dani Alves set to join Manchester City after contract talks fail - report - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"20 Mar 2011 18:25:00 Dani Alves of Barcelona Related Links Teams Players For all the latest reports and transfer rumours, visit our dedicated section here Barcelona right back Dani Alves has been linked with a move to Manchester City once again as talks on a new contract have reportedly failed. 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