{"id":408,"date":"2026-01-26T16:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T14:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balticfootballnews.com\/fr\/journaliste-utkus-en-route-pour-la-saudi-pro-league\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T16:12:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T14:12:33","slug":"journaliste-utkus-en-route-pour-la-saudi-pro-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balticfootballnews.com\/fr\/journaliste-utkus-en-route-pour-la-saudi-pro-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Journaliste : Utkus en route pour la Saudi Pro League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"><strong>Le journaliste belge Sacha Tavolieri rapporte que le d\u00e9fenseur international lituanien Edgaras Utkus est sur le point de poursuivre sa carri\u00e8re en Arabie saoudite, mettant fin \u00e0 son passage de quatre ans et demi au Cercle Brugge.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Le d\u00e9fenseur central de 25 ans, qui compte 23 s\u00e9lections avec l\u2019\u00e9quipe de Lituanie, \u00e9tait encore en action dimanche, en disputant le match nul 1-1 de Cercle Brugge contre Genk en championnat. D\u00e8s le lendemain, Tavolieri a indiqu\u00e9 qu\u2019Utkus \u00e9tait tout pr\u00e8s d\u2019un d\u00e9part imm\u00e9diat vers Al-Kholood, un club qui \u00e9volue en Saudi Pro League. Selon ces informations, le d\u00e9fenseur lituanien va signer un contrat de trois ans, avec un transfert effectif d\u00e8s maintenant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Le contrat d\u2019Utkus avec le Cercle Brugge devait expirer cet \u00e9t\u00e9. Il avait rejoint le club belge il y a quatre ans et demi apr\u00e8s avoir pass\u00e9 trois ans et demi dans le syst\u00e8me de formation de l\u2019AS Monaco. Durant son passage \u00e0 Bruges, Utkus s\u2019est impos\u00e9 comme un \u00e9l\u00e9ment majeur de l\u2019effectif, avec 113 apparitions toutes comp\u00e9titions confondues et sept buts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Al-Kholood, la destination annonc\u00e9e d\u2019Utkus, occupe actuellement la 13e place du classement de Saudi Pro League apr\u00e8s 17 matches, avec 15 points dans un championnat \u00e0 18 \u00e9quipes. Tavolieri ajoute que le club saoudien devrait payer une indemnit\u00e9 de transfert d\u2019environ 1,2 M\u20ac pour boucler l\u2019op\u00e9ration.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 EXCL &#8211; Edgaras Utkus leaves Cercle Brugge with immediate effect to Al-Kholood Club! <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udfe2\u26ab\ufe0f The central back\u2019s going to sign a 3 years and a half with an extra year option in Saudi Arabia. <\/p>\n<p>\u270d\ufe0f Cercle Brugge will get \u20ac1,2M as transfer fee on that deal. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mercato?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#mercato<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JPL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#JPL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SPL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SPL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L3M11kyx3b\">pic.twitter.com\/L3M11kyx3b<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sacha Tavolieri (@sachatavolieri) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sachatavolieri\/status\/2015764693718016039?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le journaliste belge Sacha Tavolieri rapporte que le d\u00e9fenseur international lituanien Edgaras Utkus est sur le point de poursuivre sa carri\u00e8re en Arabie saoudite, mettant fin \u00e0 son passage de quatre ans et demi au Cercle Brugge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transfers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/balticfootballnews.com\/fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/01\/584797912_1397176128445058_2177011971760600115_n.webp?fit=960%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticfootballnews.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticfootballnews.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticfootballnews.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticfootballnews.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticfootballnews.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balticfootballnews.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412,"href":"https:\/\/balticfootballnews.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticfootballnews.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticfootballnews.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticfootballnews.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticfootballnews.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}