{"id":66960,"date":"2026-08-06T23:27:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T23:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/66960\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T23:27:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T23:27:47","slug":"real-madrid-sign-ivory-coasts-yan-diomande-from-rb-leipzig-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/66960\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid sign Ivory Coast\u2019s Yan Diomande from RB Leipzig | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Bundesliga Young Player of the Season in 2025\/26 reportedly signed for record fee on deal until 2033.<\/p>\n

Published On 6 Aug 20266 Aug 2026<\/p>\n

Real Madrid have announced the signing of 19-year-old Ivory Coast winger Yan Diomande<\/a> from RB Leipzig for what Spanish media reported was a club-record fee of 140 million euros ($161m) including bonuses.<\/p>\n

Los Blancos said in a statement on Thursday that a deal had been reached with the Bundesliga side for Diomande, \u201cwho is tied to our club for the next seven seasons, until June 30, 2033\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Madrid, who did not disclose the transfer fee, beat Paris Saint-Germain and Liverpool to the signing of Diomande, who played at the World Cup with his country.<\/p>\n

PSG pulled out of the running because of concerns over the size of the transfer fee, while Liverpool reportedly had a bid rejected in June.<\/p>\n

Diomande spent one season in the German top flight with Leipzig following a switch from Spanish side Leganes in 2025.<\/p>\n

He was the Bundesliga young player of the season, netting 12 goals and laying on eight assists.<\/p>\n

Diomande is Madrid\u2019s sixth preseason signing, following Marc Cucurella, Bernardo Silva, Ibrahima Konate, Denzel Dumfries and Carlos Espi.<\/p>\n

Madrid, who hired Portuguese veteran Jose Mourinho<\/a> as coach for a second spell to replace Alvaro Arbeloa, are overhauling their squad after going two consecutive seasons without a major trophy.<\/p>\n

Los Blancos have also been linked with a move for Manchester City and Spain midfielder Rodri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bundesliga Young Player of the Season in 2025\/26 reportedly signed for record fee on deal until 2033.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[66,313,865,82,273,17,314],"class_list":["post-66960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-madrid","tag-europe","tag-football","tag-germany","tag-madrid","tag-news","tag-spain","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}