{"id":1141480,"date":"2022-07-04T13:58:10","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T13:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/04\/man-city-confirm-signing-of-kalvin-phillips-on-six-year-deal-from-leeds\/"},"modified":"2022-07-04T13:58:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T13:58:10","slug":"man-city-confirm-signing-of-kalvin-phillips-on-six-year-deal-from-leeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/04\/man-city-confirm-signing-of-kalvin-phillips-on-six-year-deal-from-leeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City confirm signing of Kalvin Phillips on six-year deal from Leeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/kalvin-phillips_1i7mqvisvafao1uzu3o0coc9nd-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"kalvin-phillips_1i7mqvisvafao1uzu3o0coc9nd\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Premier League champions Manchester City have confirmed the arrival of England international midfielder Kalvin Phillips on a six-year deal from Leeds United.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old, who will wear the No 4 shirt, joins as a replacement for Fernandinho, who left the club earlier this summer to return to his native Brazil and sign for former club Athletico Paranaense.<\/p>\n<p>The deal is widely reported to be \u00a342 million initially with the potential to rise up to \u00a350m with add-ons.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips is the third signing City have made this summer after striker Erling Haaland and goalkeeper Stefan Ortega.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Philipps said it was a \u201cdream come true\u201d and added \u201cto be able to play under Pep [Guardiola] and learn from him and his coaching staff as well as be part of such a fantastic squad is a prospect that I am incredibly excited about.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very appreciative of what I have done at Leeds and everyone I have been around, so I just want to test myself in the next step with good players with an unbelievable work ethic and an unbelievable manager as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"WXtpN1gF3mc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Adom News Gets Help for \u201cMad Woman\u201d \u2013 Adom TV News (2-7-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WXtpN1gF3mc?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premier League champions Manchester City have confirmed the arrival of England international midfielder Kalvin Phillips on a six-year deal from Leeds United. The 26-year-old, who will wear the No 4 shirt, joins as a replacement for Fernandinho, who left the club earlier this summer to return to his native Brazil and sign for former club [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1141482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1761,3927,807,19689,5280,697,19685,3290,5855],"class_list":["post-1141480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-city","tag-confirm","tag-deal","tag-kalvin","tag-leeds","tag-man","tag-phillips","tag-signing","tag-sixyear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}