{"id":1618,"date":"2025-08-13T00:17:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T22:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/2025\/08\/13\/newcastle-complete-signing-of-malick-thiaw-after-e40m-agreement-with-milan\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T00:30:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T22:30:03","slug":"newcastle-complete-signing-of-malick-thiaw-after-e40m-agreement-with-milan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/2025\/08\/13\/newcastle-complete-signing-of-malick-thiaw-after-e40m-agreement-with-milan\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle complete signing of Malick Thiaw after \u20ac40m agreement with Milan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Newcastle United have announced the acquisition of Malick Thiaw after reaching an agreement with Milan valued at around 40 million euros. The transfer represents a move away from a season that the report describes as emotionally difficult for the centre-back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thiaw\u2019s time at Milan came to an end following a campaign marked by several coaching changes and varying performance peaks. Those circumstances are cited as key factors in the decision to allow the defender to leave the club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite recorded interest from Manchester United, Bayern Munich, and Como, Malick Thiaw opted to sign for Newcastle, where the deal is expected to offer him a guaranteed place in the team. The operation is structured as 36 million euros fixed plus about 4 million euros in add-ons, which together amount to the reported near-40 million euro valuation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move will see the centre-back depart Milan and join Newcastle on the terms described. The agreement follows interest from multiple clubs but ultimately concluded with Newcastle securing the player for the fee structure reported above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malick Thiaw joins Newcastle from Milan for about \u20ac40m, seeking a guaranteed first-team role. now on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[59,744,182],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newcastle-united","tag-featured","tag-malick-thiaw","tag-transfers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1625,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions\/1625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}