{"id":103974,"date":"2025-10-03T11:42:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T11:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/?p=103974"},"modified":"2025-10-03T11:42:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T11:42:23","slug":"palacios-extend-leverkusen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/2025\/palacios-extend-leverkusen\/","title":{"rendered":"Official | Exequiel\u00a0Palacios extends his contract at Bayer Leverkusen until 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bayer04.de\/en-us\/news\/bayer04\/bayer-04-agree-new-deal-with-world-cup-winner-palacios-to-2030\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bayer Leverkusen<\/a> have announced that midfielder Exequiel Palacios has extended his contract at the club until 2030.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Argentine&#8217;s previous deal was set to expire in 2028, but considering the recent upheaval at the BayArena, Leverkusen have been able to tire down a player who will be a key piece for them going forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On extending his contract, Palacios said:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>&#8220;Bayer 04 have gone through a breathtaking development since I arrived in Germany five years ago. It&#8217;s a great feeling to have been an important part of this process. Now we want to continue this story with a team that has everything it takes to continue playing a major part in national and European competitions. I&#8217;m really looking forward to the time ahead with Bayer 04.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Argentine joined Leverkusen in 2020 from his native River Plate for \u20ac17m and was more or less a hit as soon as he arrived. During die Werkself&#8217;s double-winning season, Palacios played a key role in midfield alongside Granit Xhaka, with his late penalty helping to rescue a point against Bayern Munich in the first meeting between the two sides in that season.<\/p>\n<p>However, Palacios was meant to take a step up when it came to his importance this season, but the midfielder picked up an injury against Eintracht Frankfurt and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/2025\/bayer-leverkusens-exequiel-palacios-sidelined-through-the-end-of-2025\/\">will be out for the rest of the calendar year with an abductor injury<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In his place will be compatriot Equi Fernandez, as well as Aleix Garcia and Robert Andrich, to fill in during Palacios&#8217; absence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>GGFN | <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jackmeenan15\"><strong>Jack Meenan\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bayer Leverkusen have announced that midfielder Exequiel Palacios has extended his contract at the club until 2030.\u00a0 The Argentine&#8217;s previous deal was set to expire in 2028, but considering the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12312415,"featured_media":103976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,346,11,16],"tags":[1041,514,449,570,380,1028],"class_list":["post-103974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-bayer-leverkusen","category-bundesliga","category-2-bundesliga-news","tag-b04","tag-bayer-leverkusen","tag-bundesliga","tag-germany","tag-leverkusen","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12312415"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103977,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103974\/revisions\/103977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}