{"id":208636,"date":"2025-06-23T21:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T21:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/208636\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T21:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T21:13:09","slug":"jaka-bijol-leeds-sign-slovenia-centre-back-until-2030-from-udinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/208636\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaka Bijol: Leeds sign Slovenia centre-back until 2030 from Udinese"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leeds United have signed Slovenia centre-back Jaka Bijol on a five-year deal from Udinese.<\/b><\/p>\n

The 26-year-old joins for an undisclosed fee and becomes Leeds’ second summer recruit after forward Lukas Nmecha joined on a free transfer<\/a> from Wolfsburg.<\/p>\n

Bijol scored two goals in 37 appearances in all competitions for the Serie A side last season. <\/p>\n

“This is a big day for me, for my family and I’m happy to be here,” said Bijol. “Maybe the biggest one of my career so far, but I’m ready for it.<\/p>\n

“I work for it and that’s why I’m here, because it’s a big challenge for everyone. It’s a big challenge for me, for the club, and we’re getting ready for it together. <\/p>\n

“I think the club and myself are ready for the Premier League.<\/p>\n

“I can promise that I will give everything, that I will give everything in every training as well to be ready for the first game of the season and then just go from there.”<\/p>\n

Originally a defensive midfielder, Bijol began his career in his native Slovenia with Rudar Velenje before moving to CSKA Moscow.<\/p>\n

He played on loan with German club Hannover 96 before permanently joining Udinese in 2022. <\/p>\n

Bijol has Champions League experience and has also won 63 caps since making his Slovenia debut aged 19 in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds United have signed Slovenia centre-back Jaka Bijol on a five-year deal from Udinese. The 26-year-old joins for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-208636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114734747140426573","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}