{"id":127443,"date":"2019-06-17T17:37:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T16:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=127443"},"modified":"2019-06-17T17:39:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T16:39:19","slug":"transfer-arsenal-agrees-five-year-deal-with-william","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=127443","title":{"rendered":"Transfer: Arsenal \u2018agrees five-year deal\u2019 with William"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Transfer-Arsenal-\u2018agrees-five-year-deal\u2019-with-William.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Arsenal have finally agreed on a five-year deal with Saint-Etienne defender, William Saliba.<\/p>\n<p>According to Foot Mercato, the Gunners saw off competition from Manchester United after agreeing on personal terms with the 18-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>The report claimed that Arsenal is expected to pay Saint-Etienne \u00a326million for the youngster.<\/p>\n<p>The report also claimed that Saliba was identified by Arsenal manager, Unai Emery, as a long-term replacement for centre-back, Laurent Koscielny, who has a year left on his current deal at the Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>Emery is keen to strengthen his squad in this summer\u2019s transfer window after finishing in the fifth position on the Premier League table last campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Saliba played a key role in helping Saint-Etienne to secure fourth-placed in their domestic league last season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal have finally agreed on a five-year deal with Saint-Etienne defender, William Saliba. According to Foot Mercato, the Gunners saw off competition from Manchester United after agreeing on personal terms with the 18-year-old. The report claimed that Arsenal is expected to pay Saint-Etienne \u00a326million for the youngster. The report also claimed that Saliba was identified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":127444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[4427],"class_list":["post-127443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-arsenal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/127444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}