MILAN \u2014 Belgium winger Diego Moreira joined AC Milan in a reported 50-million-euro ($58.5-million) move from Strasbourg, which is under increased financial scrutiny by UEFA. <\/p>\n
The 22-year-old Moreira signed a five-year contract, Milan said in a statement late Monday.<\/p>\n
Moreira was a member of Belgium’s World Cup squad and played in one game, as a second-half substitute in a 3-2 come-from-behind win over Senegal in the round of 32.<\/p>\n
He was a youth international for both Belgium and Portugal, then got FIFA approval in May 2025 to choose Belgium as his senior eligibility.<\/p>\n
Moreira\u2019s exit brings Strasbourg\u2019s sales this week to about 100 million euros ($117 million).<\/p>\n
The French club, which is owned by Chelsea\u2019s holding company BlueCo, was fined 13 million euros ($15 million) by UEFA in June for overspending in breach of financial monitoring rules. It was the biggest financial sanction imposed by the European soccer body on any club last season.<\/p>\n
UEFA told Strasbourg to \u201csignificantly decrease\u201d player costs in 2026, when the club has no European soccer after reaching the semifinals of the third-tier Conference League last season.<\/p>\n
Moreira was sold to Strasbourg in 2024 by Chelsea, where he never played in the Premier League.<\/p>\n
Milan will play in the second-tier Europa League this season under new coach Ruben Amorim after a fifth-place finish in Serie A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILAN \u2014 Belgium winger Diego Moreira joined AC Milan in a reported 50-million-euro ($58.5-million) move from Strasbourg, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,3934,1953],"class_list":["post-33621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-soccer","tag-wires-bot"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/117127053635302769","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33621","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=33621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}