{"id":9701,"date":"2025-01-23T06:25:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T06:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/manchester-city-real-valladolid-accuse-club-of-encouraging-player-to-break-contract\/"},"modified":"2025-01-23T06:25:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T06:25:06","slug":"manchester-city-real-valladolid-accuse-club-of-encouraging-player-to-break-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/manchester-city-real-valladolid-accuse-club-of-encouraging-player-to-break-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City: Real Valladolid accuse club of encouraging player to break contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Real Valladolid have accused Manchester City of encouraging one of their players to break his contract to force through a move to the Premier League club.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Defender Juma Bah told the Spanish club on Tuesday that he intends to terminate his contract, allowing City to sign the player for a much lower fee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">City had sent a request to Valladolid earlier in the day asking to begin negotiations over a permanent deal for the 18-year-old, Valladolid said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bah then did not turn up for training on Wednesday, with the Spanish Football Association confirming he had deposited the necessary amount to terminate his contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Valladolid say the teenager&#8217;s decision was &#8220;supposedly supported and guided by Manchester City and his agent&#8221; and has &#8220;caused great disappointment and indignation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The club considers that Manchester City is behind the player&#8217;s decision, and appears to have advised the player to take this route.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 18-year-old joined Valladolid on a season-long loan from AIK Freetong in his native Sierra Leone last summer and the club exercised a clause earlier this month to turn it into a permanent deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Bah is still under a youth contract and has so far refused to sign a senior deal that would significantly increase his release clause.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Valladolid say they will take disciplinary action against Bah and will do whatever they can to &#8220;defend&#8221; the clubs&#8217;s interests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Sport has approached Manchester City for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/ckg7rj9e4rdo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Valladolid have accused Manchester City of encouraging one of their players to break his contract to force through a move to the Premier League club. Defender Juma Bah told the Spanish club on Tuesday that he intends to terminate his contract, allowing City to sign the player for a much lower fee. City had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9703,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9701\/revisions\/9703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}