{"id":40878,"date":"2025-08-02T03:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T03:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/40878\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T03:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T03:09:10","slug":"weah-breakthrough-as-juventus-and-marseille-talks-progress-after-13m-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/40878\/","title":{"rendered":"Weah breakthrough as Juventus and Marseille talks progress after 13m offer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>              <a class=\"mg-blog-thumb\" href=\"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/weah-breakthrough-juventus-marseille-progress\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Timothy-Weah-celebrate-PSV-Juventus.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-866192\" alt=\"epa11908638 Timothy Weah of Juventus FC celebrates the 1-1 during the UEFA Champions League knockout phase play-offs 2nd leg soccer match between PSV Eindhoven and Juventus FC in Eindhoven, Netherlands, 19 February 2025. EPA-EFE\/SEM VAN DER WAL\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1200\/800;max-width:1024px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>epa11908638 Timothy Weah of Juventus FC celebrates the 1-1 during the UEFA Champions League knockout phase play-offs 2nd leg soccer match between PSV Eindhoven and Juventus FC in Eindhoven, Netherlands, 19 February 2025.  EPA-EFE\/SEM VAN DER WAL<\/p>\n<p><\/a>              &#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Santi_J_FM\/status\/1951377436177998110\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Footmercato claim<\/a> that Juventus and Olympique Marseille have moved substantially closer to a deal for Timothy Weah after confusion over the \u20ac13m offer.<\/p>\n<p>The French club was frustrated by the seeming change of approach because Juve had previously accepted a \u20ac13m bid from Nottingham Forest, only for the player to turn it down because he did not appreciate the destination.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/why-marseille-wont-increase-weah-offer-yet\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">It therefore confused them<\/a> that Juventus refused an identical proposal and were now asking for more money compared to the Nottingham Forest proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Talks had therefore stalled with the Ligue 1 side <a href=\"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/comolli-on-juventus-outcasts-douglas-luiz-weah\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unwilling to raise their bid<\/a> any higher in these circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Weah eager for Olympique Marseille move<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Timothy-Weah-USMNT.jpg\" class=\"lazyload lazyload wp-image-902166 has-webp size-medium\" alt=\"INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 23: Timothy Weah #21 of the United States looks on against Canada during the first half of the CONCACAF Nations League third-place match at SoFi Stadium on March 23, 2025 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Michael Owens\/Getty Images)\"  data- style=\"aspect-ratio:1200\/800;max-width:1200px\"\/>INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA \u2013 MARCH 23: Timothy Weah #21 of the United States looks on against Canada during the first half of the CONCACAF Nations League third-place match at SoFi Stadium on March 23, 2025 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Michael Owens\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.footmercato.net\/transferts-en-direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">This evening, Footmercato<\/a> in France suggest that the two clubs have moved closer to each other\u2019s positions during fresh negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>A deal is not done yet, but there seems to have been significant progress to break the impasse.<\/p>\n<p>Weah too was frustrated by the situation, as he wanted more power to choose his next destination and pushed for a return to France, having played for Paris Saint-Germain and Lille before the \u20ac11m plus bonuses transfer to Juventus in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>                                &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tPost navigation&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"epa11908638 Timothy Weah of Juventus FC celebrates the 1-1 during the UEFA Champions League knockout phase play-offs 2nd&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-40878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}