{"id":628401,"date":"2023-09-01T14:27:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T18:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=628401"},"modified":"2023-09-01T14:27:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T18:27:05","slug":"bayern-munich-joao-palhinha-fulham-deal-collapsed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/09\/01\/bayern-munich-joao-palhinha-fulham-deal-collapsed\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Deal is Collapsing&#8217;: Journalist Reveals Massive Update Out of Fulham as Deal with European Giants Collapses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The drama on transfer deadline day continues as Joao Palhinha&#8217;s big-money move to Bayern Munich is currently collapsing despite seemingly being close to complete according to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1697641652590985623\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Fulham Stand Firm Despite Bayern&#8217;s Search for Midfield Reinforcements<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jo\u00e3o Palhinha completed two round of medical tests, took pictures in Bayern shirt but deal is currently collapsing \u26d4\ufe0f <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>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1697641652590985623?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Marco Silva Set to Keep Hold of Star Player<\/h3>\n<p>The Cottagers will be happy to keep hold of Palhinha, who has established himself as one of the best holding midfielders in the Premier League. The 28-year-old topped the league&#8217;s charts for most tackles in the 2022\/23 season with 147, as much as 47 clear of Chelsea&#8217;s Moises Caicedo, then of Brighton.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/09\/01\/iwobi-everton-fulham-deal-agreed\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">\u2018Here We Go!\u2019: Journalist Drops Big Update Out of Fulham With Medical Later Today for \u2018Intelligent Footballer\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He joined the Craven Cottage outfit last summer from Sporting CP and is a regular in the Portugal setup, making 21 caps for his country, and scoring two goals since his debut in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese midfielder has continued that form into this current campaign, putting in stand-out performances in both of his starts thus far. He scored an excellent leveler right at the end to secure his side a 2-2 draw at the Emirates against Arsenal and was a key player in the 1-1 draw with Tottenham in the Carabao Cup, where his side progressed after a penalty shoot-out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch:\u00a0<\/strong>DEADLINE DAY LIVESTREAM &#8211; Covering All the Biggest News and Updates<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DEADLINE DAY LIVESTREAM - Covering All the Biggest News and Updates\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6lloJkN-L_Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Agreement Reached but Joao Palhinha Deal Is Collapsing<\/h3>\n<p>It had seemed that Palhinha was keen on the move to the German giants after there were reports that a deal in the region of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12469293\/Bayern-Munich-agree-55million-fee-Fulham-sign-Joao-Palhinha.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a355 million<\/a> had been agreed between the clubs. However, Romano has tweeted an update stating that despite two rounds of medical being completed and the player taking pictures in a Bayern shirt, the deal is collapsing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/08\/31\/joao-palhinha-hojberg-spurs-bayern\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">\u2018Fighting to Go\u2019: \u2018Invaluable\u2019 Tottenham Player Targeted by PL Club After Fulham Star Asked to Leave<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The deal would have represented a club-record fee received by the Premier League side if the deal had gone through. Fulham would need to sign a replacement if they were to let another key player leave, after seeing Aleksandar Mitrovic depart to the Saudi Pro League.<\/p>\n<p>It is unknown if the London side has managed to make enough progress on a new midfield player and this is likely to be the reason that the deal has not gone through. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11681\/12951737\/fulham-make-contact-with-man-utd-about-scott-mctominay-and-in-talks-with-tottenham-over-pierre-emile-hojbjerg-with-joao-palhinha-given-permission-to-fly-to-meet-bayern-munich\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sky Sports<\/a> had reported that Manchester United&#8217;s Scott McTominay and Tottenham&#8217;s Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg were targets but little or no progress has been made on these deals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo provided to Wikimedia Commons by Christian Wood. CC by 4.0<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The drama on transfer deadline day continues as Joao Palhinha&#8217;s big-money move to Bayern Munich is currently collapsing despite seemingly being close to complete according to Fabrizio Romano. Fulham Stand Firm Despite Bayern&#8217;s Search for Midfield Reinforcements Jo\u00e3o Palhinha completed two round of medical tests, took pictures in Bayern shirt but deal is currently collapsing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4692,"featured_media":626113,"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":[2511,1364,4,3,7188],"tags":[9301,9297],"class_list":["post-628401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fulham","category-bayern-munich","category-bundesliga","category-premier-league","category-rumours","tag-fulham-transfer-rumours","tag-joao-palhinha"],"modified_by":"Delight Wellington","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628401","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\/4692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}