{"id":339747,"date":"2025-08-13T00:03:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T00:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/339747\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T00:03:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T00:03:16","slug":"malick-thiaw-transfer-news-newcastle-united-complete-deal-to-sign-defender-from-ac-milan-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/339747\/","title":{"rendered":"Malick Thiaw transfer news: Newcastle United complete deal to sign defender from AC Milan | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle have completed a deal to sign AC Milan defender Malick Thiaw for \u00a330m (\u20ac35m) plus \u00a34.3m in add-ons.<\/p>\n<p>Thiaw has signed a long-term deal at St James&#8217; Park and will wear the number 12 for the Magpies.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in a club statement confirming his arrival, he said: &#8220;I&#8217;m really excited to join this massive club. I can&#8217;t wait to start training and to get to know my new teammates and all the staff.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The gaffer showed me his vision and what he wants to do with me as a player and the club itself, which is really exciting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think Newcastle speaks for itself. It&#8217;s a great club, a big club with passionate fans who I can&#8217;t wait to see at St James&#8217; Park.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Dusseldorf-born 24-year-old, who predominantly plays as centre-back, joined Milan from Schalke in 2022 and went on to make 85 appearances for the Italian giants. Last season, Thiaw was a part of the Milan side that beat rivals Inter to claim their 8th Italian Super Cup.<\/p>\n<p>At Germany youth level, Thiaw was also a part of the squad that won the U21 Euros in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>        Twitter<\/p>\n<p>                This content is provided by Twitter, which may be using cookies and other technologies.<br \/>\n                To show you this content, we need your permission to use cookies.<br \/>\n                You can use the buttons below to amend your preferences to enable Twitter cookies or to allow those cookies just once.<br \/>\n                You can change your settings at any time via the <a href=\"#privacy-options\">Privacy Options<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>                Unfortunately we have been unable to verify if you have consented to Twitter cookies.<br \/>\n                To view this content you can use the button below to allow Twitter cookies for this session only.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"#\" class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body__link ui-consent-roadblock-permanently\" data-single-click-vendor-name=\"twitter\" data-show-on-fallback=\"false\">Enable Cookies<\/a><br \/>\n                <a href=\"#\" class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body__link ui-consent-roadblock-once\" data-single-click-vendor-name=\"twitter\">Allow Cookies Once<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Howe: Thiaw adds quality to our defence<\/p>\n<p>Newcastle boss Eddie Howe outlined how pleased he is to welcome Thiaw to the club after admiring him for a &#8220;long time&#8221; while at Milan.<\/p>\n<p>Thiaw played against Newcastle at the San Siro in the 0-0 draw between the two sides in the Champions League in September 2023.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re really pleased to have Malick on board. He&#8217;s a player I&#8217;ve admired for a long time and somebody who will add real quality to our defensive options.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Malick is still young but brings valuable experience of Champions League football, as well as playing in the Bundesliga and Serie A, which is a major positive for us as we return to Europe this season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11095\/13394699\/newcastle-transfer-news-anthony-elanga-completes-55m-move-to-champions-league-bound-side-from-nottingham-forest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Anthony Elanga<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Nottingham Forest, \u00a355m<\/p>\n<p><strong>Antonio Cordero <\/strong>&#8211; Malaga, free<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aaron Ramsdale<\/strong> &#8211; Southampton, loan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Malick Thiaw<\/strong> &#8211; AC Milan, \u00a330m + \u00a34.3m<\/p>\n<p><strong>Out<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lloyd Kelly <\/strong>&#8211; Juventus, \u00a320m<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamal Lewis<\/strong> &#8211; released<\/p>\n<p><strong>Callum Wilson<\/strong> &#8211; West Ham, free<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11095\/13398637\/sean-longstaff-leeds-united-sign-midfielder-from-newcastle-for-a-fee-in-excess-of-12m\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sean Longstaff<\/a> <\/strong>&#8211; Leeds, \u00a312m<\/p>\n<p><strong>Martin Dubravka<\/strong> &#8211; Burnley, undisclosed<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11661\/13019562\/sky-sports-to-show-215-premier-league-games-a-season-from-2025-26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sky Sports to show 215 live PL games from this season<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" loading=\"lazy\" intrinsicsize=\"768x432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/skysports-football-premier-league_6984093.jpg\"   alt=\"Sky Sports to show 215 live Premier League games this season\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Image:<br \/>\n        Sky Sports to show 215 live Premier League games this season<\/p>\n<p>From this season, Sky Sports&#8217; Premier League coverage will increase from 128 matches to at least 215 games exclusively live.<\/p>\n<p>And 80 per cent of all televised Premier League games next season are on Sky Sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newcastle have completed a deal to sign AC Milan defender Malick Thiaw for \u00a330m (\u20ac35m) plus \u00a34.3m in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-339747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115018531505988719","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339747","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=339747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}