{"id":708063,"date":"2026-07-24T01:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T01:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/708063\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T01:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T01:48:12","slug":"american-calls-hand-him-a-strong-position-nunez-pressures-al-hilal-to-terminate-his-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/708063\/","title":{"rendered":"American calls hand him a strong position: Nunez pressures Al-Hilal to terminate his contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Darwin Nunez could be on his way out of Al-Hilal. Saudi reports point to a sudden twist in the Uruguayan striker&#8217;s future after he told the club he wants to leave this window.<\/p>\n<p>According to Saudi newspaper &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alyaum.com\/articles\/6674509\/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B6%D8%A9\/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%8A\/%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%84-%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86-%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B2-%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%82%D8%B4-%D9%81%D8%B3%D8%AE-%D8%B9%D9%82%D8%AF%D9%87-%D9%85%D8%B9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%87%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84-%D9%84%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%84-%D9%84%D9%87%D8%B0%D8%A7-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%8A\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Al-Yaum<\/a>&#8220;, Nunez has discussed terminating his contract by mutual consent with the Al-Hilal board, keen to start a new challenge from next season. The paper adds that he has fielded calls from an American club asking about his situation.<\/p>\n<p>Reliable journalist Ben Jacobs backs that up. He confirmed on X that Atlanta United have opened initial talks to sign the Al-Hilal forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nunez has already discussed with Al-Hilal the matter of terminating the contract by mutual consent, but he remains bound by a valid contract with the club until now,&#8221; Jacobs added.<\/p>\n<p>The striker has fallen out of Simone Inzaghi&#8217;s plans. The Italian has agreed to let Nunez go during the current transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Hilal, meanwhile, have already started hunting for a major attacking signing to strengthen the front line at the request of the coaching staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darwin Nunez could be on his way out of Al-Hilal. Saudi reports point to a sudden twist in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[30617,234710,234711,59,101,568,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-708063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-al-hilal","tag-atlanta-united","tag-d-nunez","tag-gb","tag-sports","tag-transfers","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708063","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=708063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}