{"id":456691,"date":"2023-08-27T15:30:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T11:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=456691"},"modified":"2023-08-27T15:30:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T11:30:46","slug":"leverkusen-sign-nathan-tella-from-southampton","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/leverkusen-sign-nathan-tella-from-southampton\/","title":{"rendered":"Leverkusen sign Nathan Tella from Southampton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Saints striker Nathan Tella has joined German team Bayer Leverkusen in a deal for 25 million dollars.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Official, completed. Nathan Tella joins Bayer Leverkusen from Southampton on \u00a320m package deal. \ud83d\udd34\u26ab\ufe0f\ud83e\udd1d\ud83c\udffb <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bayer04?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Bayer04<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deal includes sell-on clause, contract until June 2028. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IKfBbzt4WH\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/IKfBbzt4WH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1695703253587984512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The striker played for Burnley on loan during the past campaign, netting 19 goals as the Clarets triumphed in the Championship and got promoted to the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Tella has inked a 5-year contract with the Bundesliga club.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite being disappointed to lose such a phenomenal homegrown player and popular character, Southampton felt the offer represented an amazing value for both sides,&#8221; the Saints shared.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many younger players from the Premier League receive huge opportunities in Germany and were able to become better players here,&#8221; the forward told Leverkusen&#8217;s website after his transfer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This historical club made it to the \u00bd finals of the Europa League last campaign. I really want to play for Bayer and help the club succeed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tella was Southampton\u2019s player for 6 years after joining the academy from Arsenal when he was seventeen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saints striker Nathan Tella has joined German team Bayer Leverkusen in a deal for 25 million dollars. Official, completed. Nathan Tella joins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":456692,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18049,18158,17454],"news_category":[139,14235],"gn_keywords":[19445,21142,18674,396],"acf":{"announce":"The forward will continue his career in the Bundesliga.","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\/456691"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456691"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/456691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456711,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/456691\/revisions\/456711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456691"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=456691"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=456691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}