{"id":10351,"date":"2021-07-03T14:03:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T08:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=119570"},"modified":"2021-07-03T14:03:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T08:33:53","slug":"andre-silva-joins-rb-leipzig-after-eintracht-frankfurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/andre-silva-joins-rb-leipzig-after-eintracht-frankfurt\/","title":{"rendered":"Andre Silva joins RB Leipzig after Eintracht Frankfurt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The RB Leipzig club announced on Friday that the Portugal striker Andre Silva signs a five-year contract with RB Leipzig from Eintracht Frankfurt. He had scored 28 goals in the Bundesliga season 2020\/21, second only to Bayern Munich star Robert Lewandowski, who had scored 41 goals and set a new single-season record on Germany\u2019s top flight.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I want to thank <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eintracht?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Eintracht<\/a> for this journey! And to announce my new chapter in @DieRotenBullen <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DR9NEbf7o3\">https:\/\/t.co\/DR9NEbf7o3<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q61Cl6RdZh\">pic.twitter.com\/q61Cl6RdZh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andr\u00e9 da Silva (@andrevsilva19) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andrevsilva19\/status\/1411058915920564232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As per German daily, Frankfurt was paid 23 million euros by Leipzig for Andre Silva, who will be paid around four million per season. Andre tweeted, \u201cI want to thank Eintracht for this journey! And to announce my new chapter in @DieRotenDullen (RB Leipzig).\u201d He has also made three appearances for Portugal side off the bench at Euro 2021 and is expected to play Champions League football next season with Leipzig after Frankfurt missed their qualification.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f Andr\u00e9 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Silva?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Silva<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\"I\u2019m really excited for the new challenge at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RBLeipzig?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RBLeipzig<\/a>. The club have big goals and ambitions and I want to help them achieve those. I want to play at the highest level \u2013 the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UCL?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UCL<\/a> \u2013 and I can do that regularly here.\" <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wjTRy3QLKb\">pic.twitter.com\/wjTRy3QLKb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RB Leipzig English (@RBLeipzig_EN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RBLeipzig_EN\/status\/1411018289225076737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Silva had played the last 20 minutes of Portugal\u2019s 1-0 defeat to Belgium in the round of 16 of the Euro 2020. RB Leipzig finished second in the Bundesliga last season. This football side also has a new head coach Jesse Marsch who replaced Julian Nagelsmann, now in charge of champions Bayern Munich. The RB Leipzig club also tweeted Andre Silva\u2019s statement, \u201cI\u2019m really excited for the new challenge at RB Leipzig. The club has big goals and ambitions and I want to help them achieve those. I want to play at the highest level \u2013 the UCL and I can do that regularly here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RB Leipzig club announced on Friday that the Portugal striker Andre Silva signs a five-year contract with RB Leipzig\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":32859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2081,221,344,1722,2083,2082,494,922,2080,563],"class_list":["post-10351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-andre-silva","tag-bayern-munich","tag-bundesliga","tag-euro-2020","tag-frankfurt","tag-jesse-marsch","tag-julian-nagelsmann","tag-portugal","tag-rb-leispzig","tag-robert-lewendowski"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}