{"id":566077,"date":"2026-07-24T14:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T14:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/566077\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T14:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T14:39:12","slug":"transfers-newcastle-move-to-sign-bamba-in-five-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/566077\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfers: Newcastle move to sign Bamba in five-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle United have signed midfielder Aladji Bamba on a five-year \u2060deal from French side AS Monaco.<\/p>\n<p>The club will pay an initial fee of \u00a330 million (\u20ac35.1m), plus add-ons, for the 20-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>A product of Monaco&#8217;s academy, Bamba made his first-team debut for the Ligue 1 club last year and went on \u200cto make 25 appearances, including both legs of Monaco&#8217;s \u2060Champions League knockout phase playoff \u200cagainst Paris St Germain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m excited to test \u2060myself \u200cin a new league, the biggest league in the world. I learned a lot \u2060last season and now I feel \u2060ready for this new opportunity. I will give my all for this club,&#8221; Bamba said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newcastle United have signed midfielder Aladji Bamba on a five-year \u2060deal from French side AS Monaco. The club&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-566077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}