{"id":719731,"date":"2026-06-06T21:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T21:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/719731\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T21:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T21:06:09","slug":"brighton-agree-21-5m-deal-for-aik-stockholm-winger-zadok-yohanna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/719731\/","title":{"rendered":"Brighton agree \u00a321.5m deal for AIK Stockholm winger Zadok Yohanna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/brighton-and-hove-albion\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brighton<\/a> have agreed to sign winger Zadok Yohanna from AIK Stockholm in a deal worth \u00a321.5m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 18-year-old Nigerian is set to join the Seagulls on a five-year contract in a move which will be finalised when the summer transfer window opens on Monday, 15 June. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to working with Zadok,&#8221; said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/brighton-and-hove-albion\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brighton<\/a> boss Fabian Hurzeler. &#8220;Having seen his games and his attributes, he is a player that can impact games in the final third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s still young, and will need time to adapt to the club and Premier League, but he&#8217;s an exciting player to watch and he brings the kind of creativity we know our fans will enjoy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yohanna joined AIK Stockholm from the Ikon Allah Football Academy in Nigeria and has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aikfotboll.se\/artiklar-och-nyheter\/260606-zadok-yohanna-lamnar-for-premier-league\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">five goals and four assists in 18 appearances, external<\/a> for the Swedish club since he debut in August 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brighton have agreed to sign winger Zadok Yohanna from AIK Stockholm in a deal worth \u00a321.5m. The 18-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-719731","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\/719731","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=719731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}