Newcastle United\u00a0have signed Bosnia and Herzegovina international\u00a0Amar Dedic\u00a0from\u00a0Benfica\u00a0on a five-year deal.<\/p>\n
Sky Sports News understands the deal to be worth \u00a329.5m.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old full-back becomes the sixth senior addition of the summer and will wear the No 37 shirt at St James’ Park.<\/p>\n
Dedic, who can operate on either flank, previously worked with Newcastle head coach Matthias Jaissle at Red Bull Salzburg and Liefering.<\/p>\n
“Working with Matthias again was a big factor for me,” Dedic said. “We know each other well, he knows what I can bring on the pitch and I’m really happy to be playing for him again.”<\/p>\n
Jaissle said Dedic would bring “both defensive and attacking qualities” to his squad, adding: “He’s athletic, aggressive and technically very good, but also has a lot of potential to develop further.”<\/p>\n
Sporting director Ross Wilson described Dedic as a “modern full-back” capable of playing on either side and adds that he will “strengthen” the Newcastle squad “straightaway”.<\/p>\n
Dedic made 95 appearances for Salzburg before loan spells with Wolfsberger AC and Marseille, and joined Benfica permanently last summer.<\/p>\n
He featured for Benfica at St James’ Park in last season’s Champions League and has won 31 caps for Bosnia and Herzegovina, representing his nation at the World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newcastle United\u00a0have signed Bosnia and Herzegovina international\u00a0Amar Dedic\u00a0from\u00a0Benfica\u00a0on a five-year deal. Sky Sports News understands the deal to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-596907","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\/596907","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=596907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}