After seeing Kevin De Bruyne bid an emotional farewell to the Etihad final summer season, Manchester Metropolis supporters shall be bidding farewell to yet one more fashionable icon this month.
Bernardo Silva, who helped Josep Guardiola’s facet win their eighth FA Cup with the Sky Blues’ late 1-0 victory over historic rivals Chelsea at Wembley on Saturday afternoon, introduced that he’s ending his nine-year spell on the Etihad.
The Portuguese celebrity could also be solely centered on serving to Metropolis pull off an actual miracle within the coming week and handle to regain the Premier League title, however the debate over his future has actually intensified in current weeks.
Metropolis have another look on the Etihad subsequent weekend as they end their 2025-26 marketing campaign towards Europa League finalists Aston Villa, and Silva shall be eager to type out his subsequent journey earlier than departing for this summer season’s World Cup in North America.
Silva has stated he has little interest in enjoying in one other Premier League and will have admitted to bidding farewell to England’s elite, however there’s a lot hypothesis as to how Metropolis’s playmaking celebrity will find yourself heading into the 2026/27 season.
Silva leaves Manchester as a contemporary icon
There might have been a lot hypothesis over Silva’s place on the Etihad in recent times, however Guardiola appointed the 31-year-old as everlasting membership captain this season, cementing the Portuguese playmaker’s place as a modern-day icon in Manchester’s blues.
Silva, who has cemented his standing as a fan favourite since becoming a member of from Monaco for £43m in 2017, has been one of many key components of Metropolis’s 10-year reign.
He led Metropolis towards Wembley on Saturday afternoon and helped them raise an historic eighth FA Cup because of a nervy 1-0 win over Chelsea. Remarkably, that is the sixteenth main honor the previous Benfica star has received in his 9 years on the Etihad.
Equally, Silva, who wrote himself into Metropolis lore in 2023 when the Sky Blues received their first Champions League, brilliantly received six home titles and 4 consecutive Premier League titles between 2021 and 2024.
The truth is, Silva is the one participant from Metropolis’s fashionable period to characteristic within the high 10 of the membership’s all-time appearances record, having overtaken Mike Summerbee final month to presently sit in seventh place.
In an emotional put up on April 16, he formally introduced that he shall be leaving the Etihad when his present contract expires this summer season, however Metropolis’s hard-working icon will little doubt be given a heroic farewell.
Manchester Metropolis have introduced that Bernardo Silva will go away the membership this summer season.
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— Manchester Metropolis (@ManCity) April 16, 2026
Competitors to amass Silva intensifies
Silva might flip 32 in August, however it’s no secret that the Portugal worldwide has many well-known followers from throughout the continent and isn’t wanting choices.
The 107-cap worldwide, who could also be seeking to type out his home future earlier than heading to North America for this summer season’s World Cup, can also be eager to increase his keep in Europe.
There proceed to be reviews that Silva has little interest in cashing in his chips, regardless of the choice of taking a breakneck wage within the Center East, and has additionally dominated out a probably profitable transfer to MLS.
Alongside hypothesis over what his emotional return to boyhood membership Benfica will appear to be this summer season, newly topped Spanish champions Barcelona and others are carefully monitoring its progress and assessing the monetary bundle they may be capable to supply.
Nevertheless, with fellow Manchester Metropolis icon Kevin De Bruyne finishing a blockbuster transfer to Italian giants Napoli final summer season, it has been advised that Silva might additionally comply with his former teammate to Serie A, making him the newest European large to have proven curiosity from Juventus.
Turkish giants Galatasaray might additionally stay within the race to finish a serious coup, with Corriere dello Sport and Tuttosport newspapers reporting on the weekend that Turin’s leaders have already held preliminary talks with Silva’s representatives.
🚨👀 Bernardo Silva confirms speak in March: “Sure, I wish to determine on my subsequent membership earlier than the World Cup.”
“I wish to arrive in Portugal as a result of my future is already determined,” he instructed Canal 11. pic.twitter.com/grmPQxJzeQ
— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) Could 15, 2026
