{"id":1853,"date":"2024-07-15T11:32:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T11:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/joao-palhinha-bayern-munich-sign-fulham-midfielder-for-42-3m-until-2028\/"},"modified":"2024-07-15T11:32:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T11:32:11","slug":"joao-palhinha-bayern-munich-sign-fulham-midfielder-for-42-3m-until-2028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/joao-palhinha-bayern-munich-sign-fulham-midfielder-for-42-3m-until-2028\/","title":{"rendered":"Joao Palhinha: Bayern Munich sign Fulham midfielder for \u00a342.3m until 2028"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Bayern Munich have signed midfielder Joao Palhinha from Fulham on a four-year-year contract until June 2028 for \u00a342.3m, plus \u00a34.2m in add-ons. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 28-year-old Portugal international joins the Bundesliga club a year after their initial deal to sign him collapsed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cThis is one of the happiest days of my life,&#8221; Palhinha told the <a href=\"https:\/\/fcbayern.com\/en\/news\/2024\/07\/fc-bayern-sign-joao-palhinha\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">club&#8217;s website. <span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m now playing for one of the top clubs in Europe. It&#8217;s a dream come true for me, and I&#8217;m very proud of that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Palhinha joined Fulham from Sporting Lisbon in 2022 for around \u00a317m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He won the club&#8217;s Player of the Year award during his opening season at Craven Cottage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The midfielder made 79 appearances over two seasons in west London, scoring eight times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Palhinha follows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/czk01rl1rk8o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Crystal Palace winger Michael Olise to Bayern. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">English defender Eric Dier has also joined the Bundesliga club permanently after playing for them on loan from Tottenham last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bayern&#8217;s 11-year hold on the German title was ended by Bayer Leverkusen in 2023-24.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c6p2geyl0l4o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bayern Munich have signed midfielder Joao Palhinha from Fulham on a four-year-year contract until June 2028 for \u00a342.3m, plus \u00a34.2m in add-ons. The 28-year-old Portugal international joins the Bundesliga club a year after their initial deal to sign him collapsed. \u201cThis is one of the happiest days of my life,&#8221; Palhinha told the club&#8217;s website. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-football","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853","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=1853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1855,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions\/1855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}