{"id":615780,"date":"2026-09-14T12:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T12:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/615780\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T12:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T12:44:12","slug":"you-can-buy-a-donkey-for-200m-thomas-meunier-slams-senseless-transfer-market-after-former-team-mate-ayyoub-bouaddi-joins-manchester-city-for-e100m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/615780\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;You can buy a donkey for \u00a3200m!&#8217; &#8211; Thomas Meunier slams &#8216;senseless&#8217; transfer market after former team-mate Ayyoub Bouaddi joins Manchester City for \u20ac100m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Bouaddi prepares for life in Manchester, Meunier is enjoying his own recent move to English football. A transfer to Sunderland from Lille was initially derailed by an injury crisis a year ago, but the defender finally secured his switch and is thriving. \u201cIt\u2019s English football, exactly what I watched when I was younger,\u201d he explained. \u201cFull stadium, nice vibe, very good level, lots of intensity, everything you\u2019re looking for. I like this organised mess, if I can call it that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former Borussia Dortmund man admitted his only regret is not experiencing the English game sooner. \u201cWhen I think about it, I\u2019m a bit sad not to have signed for an English club earlier. But I did it, finally,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I am really happy to have signed for Sunderland in particular, because they represent everything I like &#8211; everything I love, even &#8211; in football. This popular passion. This city, a walkable city, like where I come from. To be honest, I find a bit of myself in Sunderland.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Bouaddi prepares for life in Manchester, Meunier is enjoying his own recent move to English football. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[276122,85,46,2617,278696,2619,105,20905,278695],"class_list":["post-615780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-a-bouaddi","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-manchester-city","tag-manchester-city-vs-sunderland","tag-premier-league","tag-sports","tag-sunderland","tag-t-meunier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}