{"id":33677,"date":"2026-08-15T17:58:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T17:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/sunderland-agree-25-6m-transfer-fee-for-left-back-dayann-methalie\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T17:58:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T17:58:47","slug":"sunderland-agree-25-6m-transfer-fee-for-left-back-dayann-methalie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/sunderland-agree-25-6m-transfer-fee-for-left-back-dayann-methalie\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunderland agree \u00a325.6m transfer fee for left-back Dayann Methalie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/sunderland\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Sunderland<\/b><\/a><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\"> have agreed a \u00a325.6m fee to sign left-back Dayann Methalie from Toulouse.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 20-year-old French defender is expected to undergo a medical after a verbal agreement was reached for an initial \u00a323.9m, with a further \u00a31.7m in potential add-ons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Methalie made 28 appearances for Toulouse in Ligue 1 last season, scoring twice in his final three games, as they finished ninth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The deal follows a prolonged pursuit by Regis Le Bris&#8217; side as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/sunderland\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Sunderland<\/a> look to strengthen their defence before the start of their Premier League campaign at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/ipswich-town\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Ipswich Town<\/a> next Saturday (15:00 BST).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Black Cats will also compete in Europe for the first time in 53 years and are looking to add greater depth to their squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/cgjxjqpgq4xo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Belgium right-back Thomas Meunier<\/a>, who signed on a free transfer from Lille, remains the only completed transfer so far in the window for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/sunderland\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Sunderland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c934488gjyzo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunderland have agreed a \u00a325.6m fee to sign left-back Dayann Methalie from Toulouse. The 20-year-old French defender is expected to undergo a medical after a verbal agreement was reached for an initial \u00a323.9m, with a further \u00a31.7m in potential add-ons. Methalie made 28 appearances for Toulouse in Ligue 1 last season, scoring twice in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33677","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=33677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33679,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33677\/revisions\/33679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}