{"id":1849,"date":"2019-07-05T09:36:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T09:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=1849"},"modified":"2019-07-05T09:36:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T09:36:44","slug":"atletico-sign-19-year-old-for-113m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/atletico-sign-19-year-old-for-113m\/","title":{"rendered":"Atletico sign 19-year-old for \u00a3113m."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atletico Madrid signed 19-year-old striker Joao Felix from Benfica for 126 million euros (\u00a3113 million) on Wednesday, 3 July. The fee makes the Portuguese teenager the third most expensive signing in football history &#8211; behind\u00a0Neymar\u2019s \u00a3198 million move\u00a0from Barcelona to Paris St Germain and Kylian Mbappe\u2019s \u00a3116 million transfer from Monaco to PSG.<\/p>\n<p>Atletico tweeted a video of the player in the Prado gallery in Madrid contemplating paintings by old masters, with the phrase, &#8220;Pure Talent.&#8221; \u200bFelix\u00a0only made his debut for Benfica in August but has scored\u00a020 goals in 43 games and helped the club win the Portuguese league title. He also made his debut for Portugal earlier this month, starting alongside 34-year-old\u00a0Cristiano Ronaldo\u00a0against\u00a0Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bFelix, who\u00a0has signed a contract\u00a0which will keep him at Atletico until 2026, is expected to replace French international Antoine Griezmann, who is being lined up to join Barcelona for 120 million euros (\u00a3107.6 million).<\/p>\n<p>Atletico coach Diego Simeone said of Felix: &#8220;He&#8217;s a young player. Historically, Atletico Madrid is a club that buys young players in order to develop and improve them&#8230; Like Griezmann, who when he arrived was not what he is today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more\">Griezmann, 28, has scored 133 goals in five seasons at the club\u00a0and Manchester United were among his many admirers.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atletico Madrid signed 19-year-old striker Joao Felix from Benfica for 126 million euros (\u00a3113 million) on Wednesday, 3 July. The fee makes the Portuguese teenager the third most expensive signing in football history &#8211; behind\u00a0Neymar\u2019s \u00a3198 million move\u00a0from Barcelona to Paris St Germain and Kylian Mbappe\u2019s \u00a3116 million transfer from Monaco to PSG. Atletico tweeted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6,3],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-1849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-style","category-sports","category-world","tag-football","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}