{"id":17720,"date":"2025-07-30T05:23:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T05:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/abdoulaye-kante-middlesbrough-sign-midfielder-from-troyes\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T05:23:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T05:23:47","slug":"abdoulaye-kante-middlesbrough-sign-midfielder-from-troyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/abdoulaye-kante-middlesbrough-sign-midfielder-from-troyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Abdoulaye Kante: Middlesbrough sign midfielder from Troyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Middlesbrough have signed defensive midfielder Abdoulaye Kante on a five-year contract from French second-tier side Troyes.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 20-year-old moves to the Riverside Stadium for an undisclosed fee and becomes new boss Rob Edwards&#8217; second signing of the summer, after defender Alfie Jones <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c7vrvy99l7do\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">joined on a four-year deal from Hull City.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kante, who has played for Ivory Coast at Under-23 level, has scored once in 47 Ligue 2 appearances since joining Troyes in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Boro wil get the new Championship season under way against Swansea City on 9 August.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c4gj7l48rpjo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middlesbrough have signed defensive midfielder Abdoulaye Kante on a five-year contract from French second-tier side Troyes. The 20-year-old moves to the Riverside Stadium for an undisclosed fee and becomes new boss Rob Edwards&#8217; second signing of the summer, after defender Alfie Jones joined on a four-year deal from Hull City. Kante, who has played for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17722,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17720\/revisions\/17722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}