{"id":75425,"date":"2025-08-11T19:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T19:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/75425\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T19:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T19:52:11","slug":"gds-athekame-bids-farewell-to-young-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/75425\/","title":{"rendered":"GdS: Athekame bids farewell to Young Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zachary Athekame has already played his last game for Young Boys, and AC Milan expect to complete his signing this week.<\/p>\n<p>According to La Gazzetta dello Sport (seen below) this morning, the 13 minutes that Athekame played on Sunday in Bern against Sion \u2013 a game which ended 0-0 \u2013 on matchday four of the Swiss league are expected to be his last for Young Boys.<\/p>\n<p>Milan are confident <a href=\"https:\/\/sempremilan.com\/moretto-athekame-agreement-imminent-milan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">they have secured the Swiss full-back<\/a> and the plan is for him to arrive in Italy this week to undergo the usual medical and then sign a contract until June 2029, with the option of a further year in favour of the club.<\/p>\n<p>The deal will cost \u20ac10.5m, including bonuses, with the player\u2019s willingness to sign having played a key role in negotiations between the clubs. Athekame, in fact, has rejected the advances of a French club for Milan.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old is liked for his versatility: started out as a winger, but in recent years he has steadily transformed into a full-back in a back four. Massimiliano Allegri will therefore be able to use him both on the right side of a back four or as a wing-back in a five-man midfield, as cover for Alexis Saelemaekers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"876\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-11-at-08.43.12.jpg\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-307202 has-webp\" alt=\"la gazzetta dello sport 11 august\"  data- style=\"aspect-ratio:1200\/876;max-width:1200px\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zachary Athekame has already played his last game for Young Boys, and AC Milan expect to complete his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-75425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}