{"id":133997,"date":"2019-07-08T17:53:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T16:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=133997"},"modified":"2019-07-08T18:15:06","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T17:15:06","slug":"transfer-arsenal-agree-e30million-deal-for-defender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=133997","title":{"rendered":"Transfer: Arsenal agree \u20ac30million deal for defender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/EPL-Arsenal-tell-Nigerian-attacking-midfielder-to-leave-club.png\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Arsenal and St \u00c9tienne have reached a \u20ac30million agreement for the transfer of William Saliba, RMC reports.<\/p>\n<p>Both clubs are however still in discussion over minor details, including bonuses and clauses.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old defender has already agreed a contract with Arsenal, but he will return to St \u00c9tienne on loan until the end of the 2019\/2020 season.<\/p>\n<p>Saliba was identified by Arsenal manager, Unai Emery, as a long-term replacement for Laurent Koscielny, who has a year left on his current deal at Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>Emery is keen to strengthen his squad in this summer\u2019s transfer window, after finishing in fifth place on the Premier League table last campaign.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Saliba played a key role in helping Saint-Etienne secure fourth place in Ligue 1.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal and St \u00c9tienne have reached a \u20ac30million agreement for the transfer of William Saliba, RMC reports. Both clubs are however still in discussion over minor details, including bonuses and clauses. The 18-year-old defender has already agreed a contract with Arsenal, but he will return to St \u00c9tienne on loan until the end of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126281,"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":[4427,12687],"class_list":["post-133997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-arsenal","tag-saliba"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133997","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=133997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}