{"id":74534,"date":"2025-08-29T14:06:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T14:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74534"},"modified":"2025-08-29T14:06:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T14:06:56","slug":"spurs-land-e60m-deal-for-rb-leipzig-star-xavi-simons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/29\/spurs-land-e60m-deal-for-rb-leipzig-star-xavi-simons\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs Land \u20ac60m Deal for RB Leipzig Star Xavi Simons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tottenham Hotspur are closing in on a landmark transfer, with RB Leipzig forward Xavi Simons set to join the North London club in a deal worth \u20ac60 million (\u00a351.8 million).<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old Netherlands international has reportedly completed his medical in England, with both clubs reaching an agreement in principle. Final details are expected to be concluded within 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The move marks a major coup for Spurs, who saw off strong competition from Chelsea to secure Simons\u2019 signature.<\/p>\n<p>He is set to become one of the club\u2019s key summer arrivals, alongside Joao Palhinha and Mohammed Kudus, as manager Thomas Frank reshapes his squad to bolster the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The signing comes after Tottenham missed out on targets such as Morgan Gibbs-White and Eberechi Eze, with the latter opting to join city rivals Arsenal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo &nbsp; Tottenham Hotspur are closing in on a landmark transfer, with RB Leipzig forward Xavi Simons set to join the North London club in a deal worth \u20ac60 million (\u00a351.8 million). The 22-year-old Netherlands international has reportedly completed his medical in England, with both clubs reaching an agreement in principle. Final details [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":74535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74536,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74534\/revisions\/74536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}