{"id":40868,"date":"2025-01-16T01:33:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T22:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=40868"},"modified":"2025-01-16T02:33:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T23:33:26","slug":"juventus-strengthens-its-defense-with-portuguese-costa-and-nears-moine-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/16\/juventus-strengthens-its-defense-with-portuguese-costa-and-nears-moine-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Juventus Strengthens Its Defense with Portuguese Costa&#8230; and Nears Moin\u00e9 Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-a:r8877271687791663647-content\" class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Italian football club Juventus officially announced on Wednesday its signing of Portuguese defender Alberto Costa, with the transfer of French international forward Randal Kolo Muani nearing completion. Kolo Muani arrived in Turin late this evening due to a flight issue.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to Agence France-Presse, Juventus paid \u20ac12.5 million to acquire Costa (21 years old) from Vit\u00f3ria Guimar\u00e3es, with the potential for the deal to rise to \u20ac15 million with bonuses.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Costa has signed a contract until June 2029 and will bolster Juventus&#8217; defense, which was weakened by a serious injury to Brazilian Bremer in October, which ended his season.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The importance of signing Costa lies in the club&#8217;s future investment, as Juventus has been working for several years to rejuvenate its squad at a strong pace, similarly to its interest in signing French international striker Kolo Muani, whose move from Paris Saint-Germain was initially expected to be announced officially as a six-month loan with no option to buy on Wednesday. However, the announcement has been delayed until Thursday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The former Nantes forward, who has not played much this season with PSG, arrived at Turin Airport around 7:30 PM, too late to undergo the routine medical check before signing his contract.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Kolo Muani (27 years old, 27 international caps, and 8 goals) will strengthen the attacking line of Juventus, which has heavily relied on the inconsistent Serbian Du\u0161an Vlahovi\u0107 and has been without the services of international Polish striker Arkadiusz Milik for several months due to a knee injury.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian football club Juventus officially announced on Wednesday its signing of Portuguese defender Alberto Costa, with the transfer of French international forward Randal Kolo Muani nearing completion. Kolo Muani arrived in Turin late this evening due to a flight issue. According to Agence France-Presse, Juventus paid \u20ac12.5 million to acquire Costa (21 years old) from &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40869,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40868\/revisions\/40869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}