{"id":300500,"date":"2025-07-29T06:28:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T06:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/300500\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T06:28:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T06:28:12","slug":"leeds-united-frustration-as-the-fee-marseille-have-agreed-with-feyenoord-for-igor-paixao-emerges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/300500\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds United frustration as the fee Marseille have agreed with Feyenoord for Igor Paixao emerges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Leeds United had to wait for Igor Paixao and then, just as a deal looked like it was on, it was off again. Marseille have agreed a deal to sign the Feyenoord winger, leaving Leeds in the lurch.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A head-to-head battle has been widely reported for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leedsunited.news\/tag\/igor-paixao\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paixao<\/a>, with <a href=\"http:\/\/leedsunited.news\/club\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leeds<\/a> and Marseille the leading clubs in the race for the Brazilian. It comes after Paixao had a hand in a whopping 37 goals and assists last term.<\/p>\n<p>Paixao\u2019s preference had always been Marseille and little surprise, Roberto De Zerbi\u2019s side set to play in the  Champions League next season. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leedsunited.news\/transfers\/leeds-united-table-first-major-bid-for-igor-paixao-his-reaction-says-it-all\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Brazilian was also open to joining Leeds<\/a>, but would prefer Marseille.<\/p>\n<p>It was always going to be whether Marseille could pay Paixao\u2019s asking price. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leedsunited.news\/transfers\/sky-sports-reporter-shares-major-update-on-leeds-uniteds-second-bid-for-igor-paixao\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leeds made an offer of just over \u00a328m over the weekend<\/a>, but on Monday afternoon, it emerged that Marseille have got their man.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2215320193-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Feynoord winger Igor Paixao giving a thumbs up.\" class=\"wp-image-102224\" \/>Photo by Pieter van der Woude\/BSR Agency\/Getty ImagesThe fee Marseille are paying to finally land Paixao\u2019s signature<\/p>\n<p>Feyenoord\u2019s asking price for Paixao throughout the summer has been a \u00a330m fee, and now it emerges that after weeks of negotiations, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leedsunited.news\/transfers\/fabrizio-romano-makes-full-agreement-claim-as-igor-paixao-race-between-leeds-united-and-marseille-ends\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marseille have finally done a deal that sees them cross the \u00a330m barrier<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fabrizio Romano reports on X on Monday evening that Marseille will pay an initial \u00a326m to land the fleet-footed wide man, before paying another \u00a34.3m in add-ons. It is a club-record deal for the Ligue 1 side.<\/p>\n<p>Romano said on X: \u201cOlympique Marseille will pay fee around \u20ac30m plus \u20ac5m add-ons for Igor Paix\u00e3o.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MORE LEEDS UNITED STORIES<\/p>\n<p>  Igor Paixao would have been Leeds\u2019 second-biggest signing<\/p>\n<p>While much has been made of Leeds being able to outdo Marseille financially, it was whether Leeds ever wanted to. Splashing a \u00a330.3m fee on a player that is yet to take his club football to a high level, is risky.<\/p>\n<p>Paixao has only ever played in The Netherlands and Brazil. Yet, the numbers are there for all to see and Leeds felt he was a game changer. But, Paixao slips through the net when they thought they had him.<\/p>\n<p>A fee of \u00a330.3m would have seen Paixao become Leeds\u2019 second-biggest signing. Rodrigo Moreno was bought for \u00a327m, Georginio Rutter for \u00a335.5m. But Marseille will be Paixao\u2019s destination this summer.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds United had to wait for Igor Paixao and then, just as a deal looked like it was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,65175,1860,100,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-300500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-igor-paixao","12":"tag-leeds","13":"tag-transfer-news","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114935110543120567","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300500","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=300500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}