{"id":32405,"date":"2026-07-19T00:15:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T00:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/maxime-esteve-burnley-defender-leaves-to-join-rb-leipzig\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T00:15:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T00:15:47","slug":"maxime-esteve-burnley-defender-leaves-to-join-rb-leipzig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/maxime-esteve-burnley-defender-leaves-to-join-rb-leipzig\/","title":{"rendered":"Maxime Esteve: Burnley defender leaves to join RB Leipzig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Former France Under-21s defender Maxime Esteve has left Burnley to join Bundesliga club RB Leipzig.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Burnley have agreed a reported fee of \u00a327.3m for Esteve, two years after they paid Montpellier \u00a310.2m to make his loan permanent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Esteve, 24, was a big success at Turf Moor and key to their 2024-25 Championship-winning campaign under Scott Parker, playing all 46 league games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 6ft 4in centre-half initially joined Burnley on loan on transfer deadline day on 1 February 2024, under then manager Vincent Kompany, and made 100 appearances for the Clarets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Burnley rewarded him for his progress with a five-year deal 12 months ago, but following their third relegation in five years from the Premier League, Esteve heads to a team who finished third in the German top flight last season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c1mymzpzv2ko?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former France Under-21s defender Maxime Esteve has left Burnley to join Bundesliga club RB Leipzig. Burnley have agreed a reported fee of \u00a327.3m for Esteve, two years after they paid Montpellier \u00a310.2m to make his loan permanent. Esteve, 24, was a big success at Turf Moor and key to their 2024-25 Championship-winning campaign under Scott [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32405","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\/32405","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=32405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32407,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32405\/revisions\/32407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}