{"id":621776,"date":"2023-01-31T13:50:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T18:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=621776"},"modified":"2023-01-31T13:50:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T18:50:36","slug":"leicester-city-caglar-soyuncu-atletico-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/01\/31\/leicester-city-caglar-soyuncu-atletico-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabrizio Romano Provides Latest Update on \u00a345,000-Per-Week Premier League Defender Admired by Atletico Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Financial fair play rules appear to have scuppered any potential deal involving Leicester City defender Caglar Soyuncu and a move to Atletico Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>Fabrizio Romano has<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1620453950536425472\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> reported<\/a> that the defender: &#8220;Will not join Atl\u00e9tico Madrid today. No way to anticipate the deal due to Financial Fair Play salary limits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also explained that the defender will likely join the Spanish giants on a free transfer in the summer.<\/p>\n<h2>Leicester City Defender Caglar Soyuncu Will Not Move to Atletico Madrid on Deadline Day<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Understand Caglar Soy\u00fcnc\u00fc will NOT join Atl\u00e9tico Madrid today. No way to anticipate the deal due to Financial Fair Play salary limits. \ud83d\udea8\u26aa\ufe0f\ud83d\udd34 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Atleti?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Atleti<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DeadlineDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#DeadlineDay<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Soy\u00fcnc\u00fc, expected to join Atl\u00e9tico on free transfer in July. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pfOFRJDnnn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/pfOFRJDnnn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1620453950536425472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 31, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Caglar Soyuncu&#8217;s Leicester City Contract<\/h3>\n<p>The 26-year-old&#8217;s current <a href=\"https:\/\/salarysport.com\/football\/player\/caglar-soyuncu\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a345,000-a-week<\/a> Leicester City contract is <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/3751050\/2022\/11\/02\/soyuncu-decline-leicester-transfer\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">set to expire<\/a> at the end of the season, which is the reason he has received offers from clubs the size of Atletico.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, he will now be free to leave the Foxes on a free transfer at the start of next season, and his shocking decline represents just how quickly things can change in football.<\/p>\n<p>Once an exciting young player in the Premier League, Soyuncu is now seemingly surplus to requirements at Leicester, having made just one Premier League appearance this campaign.<\/p>\n<h3>Arrival of Harry Souttar<\/h3>\n<p>His game time is likely to be reduced even further in the second half of the season, as the club close in on the signing of Stoke City centre-back <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/01\/31\/leicester-city-medical-ongoing-harry-souttar\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Harry Souttar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/01\/31\/leicester-city-leeds-united-jack-harrison\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Leicester City \u2018Pushing\u2019 to Sign \u2018Incredible\u2019 Premier League Winger<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Foxes have struggled defensively all season, and Soyuncu is possibly the very player that Souttar will be replacing in the squad.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian is everything Soyuncu was in his early Leicester days: strong, physical and a warrior at the heart of Brendan Rodgers&#8217; defence.<\/p>\n<h3>Smart Business From Atletico Madrid<\/h3>\n<p>However, even with that being said, if Atletico were able to sign Soyuncu on a free transfer in the summer, it would still represent a good move for the Spanish side.<\/p>\n<p>The financial burden of the deal would be greatly reduced, and they would be signing a player who, although his stock has rapidly declined, still has the ability to be a very good defender.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/01\/31\/fulham-full-agreement-torino-sasa-lukic\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Fulham Reach \u2018Full Agreement\u2019 for \u00a38.8 Million Midfielder<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For now, though, Soyuncu looks set to remain a Leicester City player for the rest of the season, and Rodgers must prevent the defender from being a distraction in the dressing room.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"8ux8LrVKSKBprtScRMP4Tw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1244313430\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'8ux8LrVKSKBprtScRMP4Tw',sig:'2lPoXLMkdNwN36RqQJKj00TjTO49fJsUanWuXdyooaU=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1244313430',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financial fair play rules appear to have scuppered any potential deal involving Leicester City defender Caglar Soyuncu and a move to Atletico Madrid. Fabrizio Romano has reported that the defender: &#8220;Will not join Atl\u00e9tico Madrid today. No way to anticipate the deal due to Financial Fair Play salary limits.&#8221; He also explained that the defender [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4305,"featured_media":621788,"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":[15,6,3,7188],"tags":[210,2613,9354],"class_list":["post-621776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leicester-city","category-la-liga","category-premier-league","category-rumours","tag-atletico-madrid","tag-caglar-soyuncu","tag-leicester-city-transfer-rumours"],"modified_by":"Harry Dowsett, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621776","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\/4305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}