{"id":484801,"date":"2024-07-01T09:05:27","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T13:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=484801"},"modified":"2024-07-01T09:05:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T13:05:27","slug":"brighton-ink-yankuba-minteh-from-newcastle","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/brighton-ink-yankuba-minteh-from-newcastle\/","title":{"rendered":"Brighton ink Yankuba Minteh from Newcastle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brighton &amp; Hove Albion have agreed a 5-year contract to ink Gambia winger Yankuba Minteh from Newcastle United, the team shared today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yankuba Minteh left Steve Biko FC in Gambia in August 2022 for Odense BK.<\/p>\n<p>Moved to Newcastle United a year later, spent a loan at Feyenoord &#8212; now a \u00a330-million signing for Brighton.<\/p>\n<p>Crazy rise. \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf2\ud83d\udcab <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FSH1BwpMBZ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/FSH1BwpMBZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lorenz K\u00f6hler (@Lorenz_KO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lorenz_KO\/status\/1807684625877098725?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The teenager joined the Seagulls after a successful campaign on loan at Feyenoord, which finished 2<sup>nd<\/sup> in the Eredivisie, where the winger played 37 matches in all tournaments, netting 10 goals in the Dutch top-tier division.<\/p>\n<p>Brighton will pay 37 million dollars for the player to the Magpies. Newcastle wanted to make a major transfer until the end of the past month to avoid the chance of breaking EPL profit and sustainability rules.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Minteh is a young talent who we like very much, and we&#8217;re happy that he became part of our club,&#8221; the Seagulls technical director David Weir shared after the transfer.<\/p>\n<p>Yankuba joined Danish side Odense BK 2 years ago before inking with the Magpies in the past year and being sent to Feyenoord.<\/p>\n<p>The winger scored against Celtics in the UCL and has played 7 matches for his country, Gambia, netting 3 goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brighton &amp; Hove Albion have agreed a 5-year contract to ink Gambia winger Yankuba Minteh from Newcastle United, the team shared today. Yankuba [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":484802,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18821,17317],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[18822,17886,23091],"acf":{"announce":"The Seagulls signed the winger from the Magpies.","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\/484801"}],"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=484801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484803,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484801\/revisions\/484803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484801"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=484801"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=484801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}