{"id":67419,"date":"2025-08-13T21:24:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/67419\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T21:24:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:24:16","slug":"athekame-to-undergo-ac-milan-medical-on-august-14-after-final-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/67419\/","title":{"rendered":"Athekame to undergo AC Milan medical on August 14 after final agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Zachary-Athekame-Young-Boys.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-905851 has-webp\" alt=\"BERN, SWITZERLAND - JANUARY 29: Zachary Athekame of Young Boys controls the ball during the UEFA Champions League 2024\/25 League Phase MD8 match between BSC Young Boys and FK Crvena Zvezda at Stadion Wankdorf on January 29, 2025 in Bern, Switzerland. (Photo by Daniela Porcelli\/Getty Images) (Milan and Bologna links)\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1200\/800;max-width:1200px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>BERN, SWITZERLAND &#8211; JANUARY 29: Zachary Athekame of Young Boys controls the ball during the UEFA Champions League 2024\/25 League Phase MD8 match between BSC Young Boys and FK Crvena Zvezda at Stadion Wankdorf on January 29, 2025 in Bern, Switzerland. (Photo by Daniela Porcelli\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Milan have finalised their agreement with Young Boys, so Zachary Athekame is expected to arrive in Italy for his medical on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>According to multiple sources <a href=\"https:\/\/gianlucadimarzio.com\/milan-athekame-visite-mediche-calciomercato-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">including Sky Sport Italia and Calciomercato.com<\/a>, his plane will land on Milanese soil tomorrow at 11.00 local time.<\/p>\n<p>The cost of the operation is <a href=\"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/milan-finalising-deal-new-right-back-athekame\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">expected to be a total of \u20ac10m, plus giving Young Boys a 10 per cent cut<\/a> of the future sale fee.<\/p>\n<p>Athekame latest reinforcement for Milan defence<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/bsc-young-boys-v-fk-crvena-zvezd.jpg\" class=\"lazyload lazyload wp-image-906150 has-webp size-medium\" alt=\"BERN, SWITZERLAND - JANUARY 29: Ognjen Mimovic of Crvena Zvezda (L) and Zachary Athekame of Young Boys (R) battle for the ball during the UEFA Champions League 2024\/25 League Phase MD8 match between BSC Young Boys and FK Crvena Zvezda at Stadion Wankdorf on January 29, 2025 in Bern, Switzerland. (Photo by Daniela Porcelli\/Getty Images)\"  data- style=\"aspect-ratio:1200\/800;max-width:1200px\"\/>BERN, SWITZERLAND \u2013 JANUARY 29: Ognjen Mimovic of Crvena Zvezda (L) and Zachary Athekame of Young Boys (R) battle for the ball during the UEFA Champions League 2024\/25 League Phase MD8 match between BSC Young Boys and FK Crvena Zvezda at Stadion Wankdorf on January 29, 2025 in Bern, Switzerland. (Photo by Daniela Porcelli\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>The Switzerland Under-21 international will turn 21 in December and only joined Young Boys from Neuchatel Xamax in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Athekame plays as a right-back and reportedly received offers from several other clubs too, but had his heart set on a move to Milan.<\/p>\n<p>It has been a busy time for the Rossoneri, who over the last 48 hours have sold Malick Thiaw to Newcastle United for \u20ac40m and <a href=\"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/official-de-winter-joins-milan-from-genoa-20m\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">purchased Koni De Winter from Genoa for \u20ac20m including add-ons.<\/a><\/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":"BERN, SWITZERLAND &#8211; JANUARY 29: Zachary Athekame of Young Boys controls the ball during the UEFA Champions League&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-67419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67419","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=67419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}