{"id":447482,"date":"2023-07-30T14:24:43","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T18:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=447482"},"modified":"2023-07-30T14:24:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T18:24:43","slug":"saint-maximin-joins-al-ahli","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/saint-maximin-joins-al-ahli\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint-Maximin joins Al-Ahli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allan Saint-Maximin has officially left Newcastle United to join Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Al-Ahli for undisclosed fee.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Official, confirmed. Allan Saint-Maximin joins Al Ahli on permanent transfer from Newcastle \ud83d\udfe2\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\udde6 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AlAhli?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AlAhli<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Front three: Bobby Firmino, Riyad Mahrez and Allan Saint-Maximin. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rJW5UPkw3H\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/rJW5UPkw3H<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1685672407216922624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old striker announced that he is leaving the Magpies on Saturday via an emotional social media post, where he said\u00a0 his biggest trophy was playing for them.<\/p>\n<p>He becomes the 4th Premier League player to join the Saudi League&#8217;s team after Riyad Mahrez, Roberto Firmino and Edouard Mendy.<\/p>\n<p>It is a four-year deal for a player, who joined Newcastle in 2019 from Nice and has bagged 12 Premier League goals in 111 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Many have expressed their worry that Maxmin&#8217;s price tag will be too inflated, so that Newcastle can comply with the FFP regulations, but manager Eddie Howe dismissed such claims.<\/p>\n<p>The Magpies have already made huge signings by bringing in Alexandro Tonali from AC Milan for \u00a355m and Harvey Barnes from Leicester for \u00a338m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allan Saint-Maximin has officially left Newcastle United to join Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Al-Ahli for undisclosed fee. Official, confirmed. Allan Saint-Maximin joins Al Ahli on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":447483,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20662,20677,17467],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[20678,19334,6986],"acf":{"announce":"The Frenchman becomes yet another high profile name to join the Saudi League","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/447482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/447482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447482"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=447482"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=447482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}