{"id":1673,"date":"2025-07-30T22:34:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T22:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/?p=1673"},"modified":"2025-07-31T11:14:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T11:14:54","slug":"aymeric-laporte-aiming-to-return-to-athletic-club-on-free-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/30\/aymeric-laporte-aiming-to-return-to-athletic-club-on-free-transfer\/","title":{"rendered":"Aymeric Laporte aiming to return to Athletic Club on free transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Athletic Club have had a sold summer transfer window thus far, and it could be about to get better. Nico Williams snubbed Barcelona to pen a new 10-year contract, Robert Navarro and Jesus Areso have joined, and all three could soon be teammates with Aymeric Laporte.<\/p>\n
Laporte\u2019s situation at Al-Nassr has generated significant speculation in recent weeks. He is desperate to leave the Saudi Pro League side in favour of a return to Europe, and right now, re-signing for Athletic is the most likely outcome.<\/p>\n
He has already reached an agreement on personal terms<\/a> with the club he came through the ranks with before a 2018 move to Manchester City. And as it turns out, there is a chance that Athletic are able to sign him on a free.<\/p>\n As per Marca<\/a>, Laporte is negotiating a mutual contract termination with Al-Nassr. He wants to make it easy for Athletic to sign him, but in order for an agreement to be reached, he would need to give up a significant portion of the salary that he would be owed for the upcoming 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n If this cannot be agreed upon, Al-Nassr would demand that any club wishing to sign Laporte pays a transfer fee. However, the Saudi Pro League side are expecting the 31-year-old to go, which was confirmed by their head coach, Jorge Jesus.<\/p>\n \u201cLaporte is going to leave, and we are going to sign a player with a similar profile.\u201d<\/p>\n There is no doubt that re-signing Laporte would be magnificent news for Athletic, and this would especially be the case if they were able to pick him up as a free agent. There is still work to be done before this can become a reality, but things appear to be moving in the right direction.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The post Aymeric Laporte aiming to return to Athletic Club on free transfer<\/a> appeared first on Football Espa\u00f1a<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Athletic Club have had a sold summer transfer window thus far, and it could be about to get better. Nico Williams snubbed Barcelona…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1675,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions\/1675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Al-Nassr head coach confirms Laporte exit decision<\/h2>\n