{"id":31079,"date":"2025-06-15T15:56:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T15:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/cj-egan-riley-burnley-defender-joins-marseille-on-free-transfer\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T15:56:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T15:56:49","slug":"cj-egan-riley-burnley-defender-joins-marseille-on-free-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/cj-egan-riley-burnley-defender-joins-marseille-on-free-transfer\/","title":{"rendered":"CJ Egan-Riley: Burnley defender joins Marseille on free transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">England Under-21 defender CJ Egan-Riley has joined Marseille on a free transfer after rejecting a new contract at Burnley.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 22-year-old was named in the Championship team of the season after helping the Clarets <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c1k4l0mr2gxo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">break defensive records<\/a> as they won promotion to the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Burnley last week said they had offered the former Manchester City player a &#8220;significant long-term contract&#8221; but that he had &#8220;made the decision to pursue an opportunity in France&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Egan-Riley is on duty with England at the European Under-21 Championship and will join up his new club after the tournament.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c331ggzmvzjo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England Under-21 defender CJ Egan-Riley has joined Marseille on a free transfer after rejecting a new contract at Burnley. The 22-year-old was named in the Championship team of the season after helping the Clarets break defensive records as they won promotion to the Premier League. Burnley last week said they had offered the former Manchester [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31081,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31079\/revisions\/31081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}