{"id":30308,"date":"2026-07-25T17:37:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T17:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/30308\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T17:37:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T17:37:28","slug":"from-belgium-german-giant-moves-al-ittihad-away-from-fabinho-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/30308\/","title":{"rendered":"From Belgium: German giant moves Al-Ittihad away from Fabinho alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Al-Ittihad&#8217;s hopes of signing a replacement for their Brazilian midfielder Fabinho have come under threat, following the entry of a German giant into the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Italian journalist Fabrizio Romano said that German club Eintracht Frankfurt are pushing hard to sign Nigerian Raphael Onyedika, the Club Brugge midfielder, during the current summer transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Ittihad have also entered the race, according to a tweet from the Italian journalist on his personal &#8220;X&#8221; account, firing off an official offer for Onyedika in this summer&#8217;s market.<\/p>\n<p>The Belgian club value their Nigerian midfielder at around 10 million euros. His contract expires at the end of next season, leaving him free to sign for a new club in the winter transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Ittihad want a new midfielder after deciding to part ways with Fabinho, whose contract ran out at the end of last season.<\/p>\n<p>Onyedika, 25, delivered impressive performances for Club Brugge last season. He featured in 42 matches across various competitions, scoring three goals and providing two assists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Al-Ittihad&#8217;s hopes of signing a replacement for their Brazilian midfielder Fabinho have come under threat, following the entry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[2460,7,1852,5442,16577,16578,2461,16511],"class_list":["post-30308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-al-ittihad","tag-belgium","tag-club-brugge","tag-eintracht-frankfurt","tag-fabinho","tag-r-onyedika","tag-saudi-pro-league","tag-transfers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116981835188754442","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}