PL club forks out 40 million for former WAC player

Tarik Muharemovic (pictured left with Jonathan Scherzer) is, according to Fabrizio Romano, on the verge of a move to Leeds United.

40 million Euros will be paid for the move to the Premier League, with half going to US Sassuolo - the 21-year-old's current club - and Juventus.

The Bosnian joined the "Old Lady's" youth setup after his time in Austria, as the Bosnia and Herzegovina World Cup participant actually took his first footballing steps in Carinthia: Via Austria Kärnten and Austria Klagenfurt, the centre-back ended up in the Wolfsberger AC academy, where he also made his first six professional appearances at the end of the 2020/21 Bundesliga season.

Enormous Increase in Value

Now both Italian clubs benefit from the transfer: Sassuolo paid a manageable transfer fee of two million Euros to Juve a year ago, yet despite an obviously significant sell-on clause, an enormous increase in value emerged within twelve months.

At the World Cup, Muharemovic played three of his nation's four matches and was particularly in the spotlight twice: Due to his own dismissal against Switzerland, which caused him to miss the last group game against Qatar - and in the Round of 32, when Folarin Balogun committed the foul on the defender, which led to the ignominious affair surrounding the subsequent red card.