{"id":706,"date":"2026-10-08T08:59:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T08:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/?p=706"},"modified":"2026-10-08T08:59:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T08:59:20","slug":"real-madrid-wants-city-star-with-hopes-the-relegation-happens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/?p=706","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid wants City star with hopes the relegation happens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raul Asencio has opened up about life at Real Madrid, praising Jose Mourinho for his support during his injury recovery and revealing what the coach is like behind closed doors.<\/p>\n<p>Asencio, who recently underwent surgery for a stress fracture in his right tibia, said Mourinho\u2019s hospital visit gave him a major boost and described him as humble, kind and approachable.<\/p>\n<p>The defender also reflected on his journey from the Madrid academy, the pressure of wearing the famous white shirt and taking Dani Carvajal\u2019s No.2 shirt.<\/p>\n<p>Asencio backed Vinicius Jr. to return to his best and believes Kylian Mbappe deserves the Ballon d\u2019Or, while insisting Real Madrid can turn their difficult start around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Raul Asencio has opened up about life at Real Madrid, praising Jose Mourinho for his support during his injury recovery and revealing what the coach <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/?p=706\" title=\"Real Madrid wants City star with hopes the relegation happens\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791449817715.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.evutisblog.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}