{"id":614601,"date":"2022-07-05T02:31:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T06:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=614601"},"modified":"2022-07-13T04:41:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T08:41:08","slug":"romeo-lavia-close-southampton-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/05\/romeo-lavia-close-southampton-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgian Teen to Depart Manchester City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rom\u00e9o Lavia is set to leave <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/04\/kalvin-phillips-manchester-city-leeds-united\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester City<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/02\/southampton-striker-shane-long-leaves\/\" target=\"_self\">Southampton<\/a>, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1543721219614294016?s=20&amp;t=Usx463R1b64fskF-oU1CFA\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a>. The 18-year-old Belgian has accepted all conditions of the contract and is expected to do his medical later this week.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Romeo Lavia to Southampton, done deal and here we go. Full agreement completed with Man City, medical will take place this week. Understand buy back clause included for Man City will be around \u00a340m. \ud83d\udea8\ud83e\udd1d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MCFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#MCFC<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Lavia has accepted all conditions of long-term contract. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SaintsFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#SaintsFC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8cUgaW0elp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/8cUgaW0elp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1543721219614294016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Rom\u00e9o Lavia to Southampton<\/h2>\n<h3>A Versatile Player<\/h3>\n<p>Having joined Manchester City aged just 16, the still young Rom\u00e9o Lavia is now set to join Southampton. The Saints have agreed to pay \u00a314 million for the Belgian, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11095\/12599417\/man-city-transfer-news-and-rumours-summer-transfer-window-2022\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sky Sports<\/a>, with a buy-back clause of around \u00a340 million. On paper, the 18-year-old is an excellent signing, since he&#8217;s capable of playing in both midfield and defence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/04\/kalvin-phillips-manchester-city-leeds-united\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester City Complete Move for Leeds United Star for \u00a345 Million<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>An Already Successful Career<\/h3>\n<p>Rom\u00e9o Lavia spent eight years with Anderlecht in his youth, where he was noticed by Pep Guardiola in 2019. The very next season, Guardiola signed him for City. Lavia instantly made his mark for the U18 team, being promoted to the U23 team after only a few months.<\/p>\n<p>A few more months passed and the Belgian won the Premier League 2 in April 2021 and was voted Player of the Season. Lavia started training with the senior team in the summer of the same year, earning a place in a squad that played in the 2021\/22 UEFA Champions League. However, he didn&#8217;t make his senior debut there, but in the Carabao Cup third round against Wycombe Wanderers.<\/p>\n<p>Lavia is yet to play for the senior national team, which is understandable due to his tender age. Not to mention how competitive it is to earn a spot in Belgium&#8217;s national team. Regardless, he has enjoyed a solid career through the youth teams, consistently moving up the ladder. Starting from the U15s in 2019 and most recently playing for the U21s this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/07\/03\/belgiums-golden-generation\/\" target=\"_self\">Belgium\u2019s Golden Generation Has Failed, It\u2019s Time to Rebuild<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rom\u00e9o Lavia is set to leave Manchester City for Southampton, according to Fabrizio Romano. The 18-year-old Belgian has accepted all conditions of the contract and is expected to do his medical later this week. Romeo Lavia to Southampton, done deal and here we go. Full agreement completed with Man City, medical will take place this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3313,"featured_media":614643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2,3,7188,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-city","category-featured","category-premier-league","category-rumours","category-southampton"],"modified_by":"Joseph Howes, Site Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}