{"id":110557,"date":"2025-09-01T10:22:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T10:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/110557\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T10:22:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T10:22:20","slug":"yoane-wissa-transfer-newcastle-agree-55m-deal-for-brentford-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/110557\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoane Wissa transfer: Newcastle agree \u00a355m deal for Brentford forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Newcastle have agreed a deal worth \u00a355m for Brentford forward Yoane Wissa, a day after he urged the Bees to &#8220;keep their word&#8221; and let him leave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fee is an initial \u00a350m plus \u00a35m in add-ons and the DR Congo international is travelling to Newcastle to complete the formalities of the move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brentford rejected two previous offers for Wissa from the Magpies this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It comes after Liverpool agreed a British transfer record fee of \u00a3125m <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c8904kw17j0o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to sign Newcastle striker Alexander Isak<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Magpies boss Eddie Howe is desperate to strengthen his forward line, despite completing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c9vdzl3gek3o#:~:text=Newcastle%20United%20have%20completed%20the,worth%20up%20to%20%C2%A369m.\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">club record signing<\/a> of striker Nick Woltemade from Stuttgart on a six-year contract last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wissa, 28, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c9vdwyw1m9zo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">issued a statement <\/a>on Sunday publicly confirming he wanted to leave and accusing Brentford of &#8220;unduly standing in his way&#8221; of a move to Newcastle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement on Instagram, Wissa said: &#8220;I have stayed silent for much of the summer, but with just hours remaining of the transfer window I feel compelled to make it clear that I want to leave Brentford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I believe the club are unduly standing in my way despite a series of fair offers throughout the summer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brentford and Newcastle reopened talks on Monday in an attempt to conclude a deal before the 19:00 BST deadline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Bees sold forward Bryan Mbeumo to Manchester United for an initial \u00a365m earlier in the window.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Goalkeeper Mark Flekken has also left to join Bayer Leverkusen for \u00a38m, while midfielder Christian Norgaard moved to Arsenal in a \u00a315m deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last month, Brentford completed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/ce93152xme1o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">club record deal<\/a> of up to \u00a342.5m for forward Dango Ouattara from Bournemouth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jorgen Strang Larsen, another Newcastle target, is expected to remain at Wolves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Magpies were an attractive option for the Norway striker but Wolves held firm, rejecting bids of \u00a350m and \u00a355m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vitor Pereira&#8217;s side have lost their opening three Premier League games but are due to complete the \u00a324m signing of Genk striker Tolu Arokodare as support for Strand Larsen, who scored 14 times in the top flight last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newcastle have agreed a deal worth \u00a355m for Brentford forward Yoane Wissa, a day after he urged the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-110557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}