{"id":582441,"date":"2026-08-04T01:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T01:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/582441\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T01:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T01:26:11","slug":"gonzalo-garcia-cesar-palacios-transfer-news-fulham-sign-real-madrid-pair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/582441\/","title":{"rendered":"Gonzalo Garcia &#038; Cesar Palacios transfer news: Fulham sign Real Madrid pair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/fulham\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fulham<\/a> have signed Gonzalo Garcia and Cesar Palacios from Real Madrid on five-year deals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Garcia, 22, made 39 appearances for the Spanish giants last term, scoring eight goals in all competitions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The forward, who won his first cap for Spain in June, will reunite with new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/fulham\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fulham<\/a> manager Alvaro Arbeloa, for a reported fee of around \u00a334m, with the pair having worked together at the Bernabeu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m very grateful, very happy to be here,&#8221; Garcia said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have to thank the board and Arbeloa for the trust they&#8217;ve put in me, and I&#8217;m very, very excited to start.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The highly rated striker, joint-top scorer at the Club World Cup last summer, will be joined at Craven Cottage by former Real team-mate Palacios.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 21-year-old attacking midfielder also arrives on a contract that runs until the summer of 2031, although the club has the option to extend the agreements for both players by a further 12 months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Palacios made five appearances for Real&#8217;s senior side &#8211; all from the substitutes bench &#8211; and has played for Spain at under-20 level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fulham have signed Gonzalo Garcia and Cesar Palacios from Real Madrid on five-year deals. Garcia, 22, made 39&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-582441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582441","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=582441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}