{"id":696919,"date":"2026-07-17T16:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/696919\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T16:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:27:13","slug":"leeds-united-sign-34-1m-defender-muharemovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/696919\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds United sign \u00a334.1m defender Muharemovic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/leeds-united\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leeds United<\/a> have signed defender Tarik Muharemovic for \u00a334.1m from Serie A side Sassuolo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 23-year-old Bosnia-Herzegovina international has signed a five-year deal at Elland Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is a replacement for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c5yzg27xp00o#:~:text=Brighton%20have%20signed,the%20Seagulls.\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pascal Struijk<\/a>, who joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/brighton-and-hove-albion\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brighton<\/a> for \u00a320m in June, and is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/leeds-united\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leeds<\/a>&#8216; second signing of the summer after Harry Wilson&#8217;s free transfer from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/fulham\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fulham<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Muharemovic played at this summer&#8217;s World Cup for his country and was involved in the challenge that saw USA forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/cx262x3rmx2o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Folarin Balogun infamously sent off<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The centre-back was sent off himself <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/live\/clyxn1d72n7t\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">against Switzerland<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds United have signed defender Tarik Muharemovic for \u00a334.1m from Serie A side Sassuolo. The 23-year-old Bosnia-Herzegovina international&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-696919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}