{"id":11626,"date":"2026-02-18T12:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/11626\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T12:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:05:10","slug":"official-samuel-essende-joins-young-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/11626\/","title":{"rendered":"Official: Samuel Essende joins Young Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Transfer estimated at 3.5 million francs for the Augsburg striker<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/5c4d7aa3d1bc406e7cd7416f0ea504d9.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Official: Samuel Essende joins Young Boys<\/p>\n<p>BSC Young Boys bolster their attack ahead of the transfer deadline by signing Samuel Essende. The 28-year-old Congolese centre-forward arrives from FC Augsburg and has signed a contract through 2029.<\/p>\n<p>Essende, who scored 8 goals in 44 Bundesliga appearances since 2024, saw his playing time reduced following the arrival of Michael Gregoritsch. The Bern club spent around \u20ac4.5 million, including all bonuses, to complete the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Experienced, with stints in Ligue 2 and the Portuguese league, he will wear number 99 in Bern and is immediately available for selection. He arrives as a replacement for the imminent departure of Sergio C\u00f3rdova to St. Louis City SC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Transfer estimated at 3.5 million francs for the Augsburg striker Official: Samuel Essende joins Young Boys BSC Young&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[8743,104,660,7333,7334,7331,8744,8742],"class_list":["post-11626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bern","tag-augsburg","tag-bern","tag-bsc-young-boys","tag-fc-augsburg","tag-michael-gregoritsch","tag-samuel-essende","tag-st-louis-city-sc","tag-transfer-deadline"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}