{"id":522,"date":"2025-01-23T21:53:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T13:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/?p=522"},"modified":"2025-01-23T21:53:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T13:53:17","slug":"valladolid-say-man-city-tapped-up-rising-star-juma-bah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/23\/valladolid-say-man-city-tapped-up-rising-star-juma-bah\/","title":{"rendered":"Valladolid say Man City tapped up rising star Juma Bah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-50.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-50.png 1000w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-50-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-50-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spanish side Real Valladolid said Wednesday Premier League team Manchester City had tapped up defender Abdulai Juma Bah and accused the 18-year-old of breaching his contract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Valladolid explained on Tuesday City had messaged asking to open negotiations over a move for the Sierra Leonean centre-back, who later informed the club of his intention to end his contract with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Juma paid his release clause to the Spanish football federation, reported to be six million euros, after not turning up for training on Wednesday, said Valladolid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The club considers that Manchester City, a member of the City Football Group, is behind the player&#8217;s decision, and appears to have advised the player to take this route,&#8221; said Valladolid in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Valladolid said they had rejected higher offers from other clubs and that Juma had refused to sign a new deal above youth team category, which &#8220;would entail an automatic increase in his termination clause&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Valladolid threatened to take legal action &#8220;to exercise its rights and defend its interests&#8221;. Manchester City did not respond to an &#8216;AFP&#8217; request for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Juma has made 12 appearances for Valladolid&#8217;s first team after arriving on loan from AIK Freetown last summer, before the Spanish club took up a clause to make the transfer permanent on January 1st.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish side Real Valladolid said Wednesday Premier Lea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":524,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions\/524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}