{"id":763170,"date":"2026-07-14T22:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T22:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/763170\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T22:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T22:11:12","slug":"leeds-agree-34-1m-fee-for-defender-tarik-muharemovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/763170\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds agree \u00a334.1m fee for defender Tarik Muharemovic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/leeds-united\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leeds United<\/a> have agreed a \u00a334.1m fee with Italian club Sassuolo for defender Tarik Muharemovic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The centre-back, 23, has still yet to agree personal terms or complete a medical, with other Premier League clubs having shown an interest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If the Bosnia-Herzegovina international opts for Elland Road he would be Daniel Farke&#8217;s second signing of the summer, after attacker Harry Wilson&#8217;s free transfer from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/fulham\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fulham<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He would serve as a direct replacement for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c5yzg27xp00o#:~:text=Brighton%20have%20signed,the%20Seagulls.\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pascal Struijk, who joined Brighton for \u00a320m in June<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Muharemovic made three appearances for Bosnia-Herzegovina at the World Cup, including in the last-32 defeat by co-hosts the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In that match, he was fouled by Folarin Balogun and the US forward was sent off, though his suspension was later waived by Fifa after an intervention from US President Donald Trump and White House officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Born in Slovenia&#8217;s capital Ljubljana, Muharemovic began his career in Austrian football, making his debut with Wolfsberger in 2021. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After a spell at Italian giants Juventus, where he did not make a first-team appearance, he was sold to Sassuolo in 2025 after a successful loan spell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Juventus are reportedly set to receive 50% of the fee because of a clause included in their sale of the defender last summer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds United have agreed a \u00a334.1m fee with Italian club Sassuolo for defender Tarik Muharemovic. The centre-back, 23,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-763170","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\/763170","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=763170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}