{"id":25305,"date":"2025-08-15T12:59:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T16:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/liverpool-signs-giovanni-leoni-18-year-old-italian-defender-from-parma\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T12:59:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T16:59:56","slug":"liverpool-signs-giovanni-leoni-18-year-old-italian-defender-from-parma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/liverpool-signs-giovanni-leoni-18-year-old-italian-defender-from-parma\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool signs Giovanni Leoni, 18-year-old Italian defender from Parma"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Liverpool Strengthens Defense with Giovanni Leoni<\/h2>\n\nLiverpool have surpassed \u00a3300 million in summer spending with the addition of young defender Giovanni Leoni, coming from Parma. The 18-year-old footballer has signed a six-season contract.\n\nLeoni joins Virgil van Dijk, Ibrahima Konat\u00e9, and Joe Gomez as options for the central defense of coach Arne Slot. Last season, Leoni participated in 17 Serie A matches with Parma.\n\nThe Italy U19 international will initially cost \u00a326 million, plus add-ons. He is expected to join Slot&#8217;s team immediately to fill a position that has presented challenges, especially after Jarell Quansah&#8217;s transfer to Bayer Leverkusen.\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Premier League 2025-26 Predictions<\/li>\n<li>Starting lineups of the big clubs on Matchday 1<\/li>\n<li>News in the Premier League<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\nHis incorporation is subject to international approval and work permit, but he is expected to be available for the Premier League opening match against Bournemouth.\n\nIn 2023, Leoni stated that he was inspired by Van Dijk, and now he will have the opportunity to learn from the Liverpool captain.\n\nKonat\u00e9 is Van Dijk&#8217;s usual partner, but Leoni will compete with Gomez for a place in the team.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Because it&#8217;s one of the best clubs in the world, it&#8217;s not possible to say no to this club.<\/p><cite>Giovanni Leoni<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nLeoni expressed his happiness and honor to join the club.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0813%2Fr1531391_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Giovanni Leoni ha firmado por el Liverpool.\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Giovanni Leoni ha firmado por el Liverpool. Leo Simon &#8211; Parma Calcio 1913\/Parma Calcio 1913 via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nLiverpool also maintains interest in Marc Gu\u00e9hi from Crystal Palace, although talks about his transfer have stalled.\n\nDespite the investment in new players, Liverpool has recouped almost \u00a3200 million in sales.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool Strengthens Defense with Giovanni Leoni Liverpool have surpassed \u00a3300 million in summer spending with the addition of young defender Giovanni Leoni, coming from Parma. The 18-year-old footballer has signed a six-season contract. Leoni joins Virgil van Dijk, Ibrahima Konat\u00e9, and Joe Gomez as options for the central defense of coach Arne Slot. Last season, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[7225,138,139,1619],"class_list":{"0":"post-25305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-giovanni-leoni","9":"tag-liverpool","10":"tag-premier-league","11":"tag-signing"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}