{"id":232725,"date":"2025-07-19T17:43:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T17:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abianewscentral.com.ng\/why-i-joined-napoli-de-bruyne\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T17:43:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T17:43:18","slug":"why-i-joined-napoli-de-bruyne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/why-i-joined-napoli-de-bruyne\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I joined Napoli \u2013 De Bruyne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why I joined Napoli \u2013 De Bruyne<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>New Napoli signing, Kevin De Bruyne has explained why he joined the club this summer transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>De Bruyne had joined the reigning Serie A champions some days ago after leaving Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking ahead of Napoli\u2019s pre-season friendly clash with Arezzo on Tuesday, the veteran midfielder said he decided to join Napoli because the club has ambitious project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI decided to join Napoli as the project is ambitious, I can feel the club is progressing fast,\u201d De Bruyne said via Fabrizio Romano.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy excitement was clear when Napoli presented me with their project and vision. I feel here we can be competitive, that\u2019s what I wanted\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This is coming after De Bruyne recently urged Napoli head Antonio Conte to sign his former Manchester City teammate Jack Grealish.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v9.0&amp;appId=420332301344305\" nonce=\"sm97MhBO\" type=\"pmdelayedscript\" data-cfasync=\"false\" data-no-optimize=\"1\" data-no-defer=\"1\" data-no-minify=\"1\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>De bruyne, napoli,<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/2025\/07\/19\/why-i-joined-napoli-de-bruyne\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why I joined Napoli \u2013 De Bruyne New Napoli signing, Kevin De Bruyne has explained why he joined the club this summer transfer window. De Bruyne had joined the reigning Serie A champions some days ago after leaving Manchester City. Speaking ahead of Napoli\u2019s pre-season friendly clash with Arezzo on Tuesday, the veteran midfielder said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":232726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[778,375],"class_list":["post-232725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-de-bruyne","tag-napoli"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}