{"id":305788,"date":"2025-07-31T05:22:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/305788\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T05:22:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:22:17","slug":"sheffield-united-seal-e8-5m-signing-player-travels-to-england-for-formalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/305788\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield United seal \u20ac8.5m signing &#8211; Player travels to England for formalities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, we covered a report from Portugal which explained <a href=\"https:\/\/sportwitness.co.uk\/player-travelling-to-sign-for-sheffield-united-this-week-awaiting-visa-loan-obligation-if-promoted\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El Hadji Djibril Soumar\u00e9 was expected to travel to England<\/a> this week to sign for Sheffield United.<\/p>\n<p>An agreement was already in place between the Championship club and SC Braga, and the midfielder had also agreed terms with the Blades.<\/p>\n<p>What was holding the transfer back was the lack of a work permit and the frustrating process of securing one for the 22-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>He spent last season on loan at CD Nacional, where he mainly played as a defensive midfielder. Braga have been happy to part ways and therefore it wasn\u2019t too much of a battle for Sheffield United to agree terms.<\/p>\n<p>The Blades have secured a loan deal, which becomes permanent should Sheffield United be promoted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abola.pt\/noticias\/mercado-sc-braga-soumare-ja-esta-em-inglaterra-2025073012212935041?utm_campaign=abola-page-post&amp;utm_content=article-fresh&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_term=cde-twitter-fresh-articles-1203\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Bola<\/a> now report El Hadji Djibril Soumar\u00e9 is already in England after a work permit was secured. They have more details on the package, which differs slightly from what was reported earlier.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Portuguese newspaper, Sheffield United are paying \u20ac1m for the loan, with a further \u20ac100k possible based on objectives. Should the Blades be promoted then the transfer will be made permanent for \u20ac8.5m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Monday, we covered a report from Portugal which explained El Hadji Djibril Soumar\u00e9 was expected to travel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-305788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114946175336378932","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305788","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=305788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}