{"id":483408,"date":"2024-05-23T09:03:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T13:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=483408"},"modified":"2024-05-23T07:38:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T11:38:39","slug":"al-hilal-ready-to-make-leao-the-third-biggest-transfer-in-history","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/al-hilal-ready-to-make-leao-the-third-biggest-transfer-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Hilal ready to make Leao the third biggest transfer in history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabian football club Al-Hilal is reportedly prepared to pay the release clause for AC Milan star Rafael Le\u00e3o, according to the Portuguese newspaper &#8220;O Jogo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Al-Hilal, which will compete in the expanded FIFA Club World Cup featuring 32 teams, has significant ambitions. The club has already secured Brazilian star Neymar, Portuguese midfielder R\u00faben Neves, Serbian midfielder Sergej Milinkovi\u0107-Savi\u0107, and Senegalese defender Kalidou Koulibaly.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8 Al-Hilal wants to sign AC Milan star Rafael Le\u00e3o. \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\udde6\u270d\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Le\u00e3o&#8217;s father will travel to Saudi Arabia this week to negotiate with club. \u2708\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>The \u20ac175M release clause won&#8217;t be an issue for the Saudi club. \ud83d\udcb8\u2705<\/p>\n<p>(Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ojogo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ojogo<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jI4wWY2Dec\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/jI4wWY2Dec<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Transfer News Live (@DeadlineDayLive) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeadlineDayLive\/status\/1793593126713737559?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 23, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Managed by Portuguese coach Jorge Jesus, Al-Hilal has expressed its readiness to pay the 175 million euro release clause for the Portuguese forward, who has a contract with AC Milan until 2028. &#8220;O Jogo&#8221; claims that the player&#8217;s father, Ant\u00f3nio Le\u00e3o, is expected to be in Saudi Arabia over the weekend to discuss the player&#8217;s future.\u00a0 If the deal goes through, Leao would be the third most expensive football player in history behind Neymar, who was bought by PSG from Barcelona for 222 million euros and Kyllian Mbappe, who costed PSG 180 million in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Despite offers from Barcelona and Real Madrid, Le\u00e3o&#8217;s agent Jorge Mendes has reportedly found those offers to be much lower than Al-Hilal&#8217;s proposition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabian football club Al-Hilal is reportedly prepared to pay the release clause for AC Milan star Rafael Le\u00e3o, according to the Portuguese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":483410,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17877,17447,17878],"news_category":[138,14235],"gn_keywords":[17879,10726,5988],"acf":{"announce":"The Portuguese has e release clause of 175 million euro","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\/483408"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483411,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483408\/revisions\/483411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483408"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=483408"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=483408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}