{"id":303855,"date":"2025-07-30T12:07:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T12:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/303855\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T12:07:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T12:07:14","slug":"transfer-news-luis-diaz-and-granit-xhaka-latest-plus-liverpool-newcastle-pre-season-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/303855\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer news: Luis Diaz and Granit Xhaka latest, plus Liverpool &#038; Newcastle pre-season updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bayern Munich&#8217;s Premier League starspublished at 11:20 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>11:20 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Luiz Diaz jumping in the air\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/bee3115a-2321-4947-9491-6baa0bbc2c56.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Luis Diaz signed for Bayern Munich this morning and has become the fourth Premier League star in the German champions&#8217; squad. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harry Kane, Michael Olise and Joao Palhinha are the other three players already in the ranks at Bayern.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Diaz signed for 75m euros (\u00a365.5m) including add-ons, while Harry Kane signed from Tottenham in August 2023 for an initial 100m euros (\u00a386.4m) plus add-ons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Olise made the move in July 2024 from Crystal Palace for \u00a350m (60m euros) with Palhinha signing the same month at Olise from Fulham for \u00a342.3m, plus \u00a34.2m in add-ons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Those four are the ones who directly signed from English top-flight clubs but stars like Serge Gnabry began their careers in the Premier League with the German previously playing for Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There have also been other players who have signed for Bayern from the Premier League but have since moved on, for example Leroy Sane and Sadio Mane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bayern Munich&#8217;s Premier League starspublished at 11:20 British Summer Time 11:20 BST Image source, Getty Images Luis Diaz&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-303855","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\/114942105714925387","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303855","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=303855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}