{"id":11216,"date":"2025-01-21T09:56:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T09:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=11216"},"modified":"2025-01-21T09:56:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T09:56:18","slug":"manchester-city-complete-signing-of-abdukodir-khusanov-from-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=11216","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City Complete Signing of Abdukodir Khusanov from Lens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2025\/01\/37c41e70-2c18-43ce-b792-6fb967f92185.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2025\/01\/37c41e70-2c18-43ce-b792-6fb967f92185.avif 900w, https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2025\/01\/37c41e70-2c18-43ce-b792-6fb967f92185-300x200.avif 300w, https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2025\/01\/37c41e70-2c18-43ce-b792-6fb967f92185-768x512.avif 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Manchester City have signed Uzbekistan central defender Abdukodir Khusanov (20) from Ligue 1 side Lens on a four-and-a-half-year deal, the Premier League club announced on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>British media said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com.gh\/team\/manchester-city\/Wtn9Stg0\/\">City<\/a> had paid a transfer fee of 40 million euros ($41.56 million) for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com.gh\/player\/khusanov-abdukodir\/00ElbXx5\/\">Khusanov<\/a>, who has played in 13 of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com.gh\/team\/lens\/IBmris38\/\">Lens<\/a>&#8216; 16 league games this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;For such a young defender, Abdukodir is already very intelligent, as well as being strong, aggressive and extremely quick,&#8221;<\/strong> City said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2025\/01\/ssstwitter.com_1737396318296.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The centre-back is the Premier League&#8217;s first player from Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khusanov joined Lens from Belarusian side <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com.gh\/team\/energetik-bgu-minsk\/hb7JLfOe\/\">Energetik-BGU Minsk<\/a> in 2023, playing 31 matches for the French team in all competitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City have signed Uzbekistan central defender Abdukodir Khusanov (20) from Ligue 1 side Lens on a four-and-a-half-year deal, the Premier League club announced on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11219,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11216\/revisions\/11219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}