{"id":63313,"date":"2018-11-21T16:16:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T15:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=63313"},"modified":"2018-11-21T16:16:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T15:16:41","slug":"epl-emery-permits-arsenal-to-sign-27m-striker-in-january-as-welbecks-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=63313","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Emery permits Arsenal to sign \u00a327m striker in January as Welbeck\u2019s replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Arsenal boss, Unai Emery has permitted the Gunners to sign \u00a327million Lille striker, Nicolas Pepe as Danny Welbeck\u2019s replacement at the club.<\/p>\n

Recall that the North London club had identified Pepe as Welbeck\u2019s replacement.<\/p>\n

Welbeck suffered a \u201ccareer-ending\u201d injury during Arsenal\u2019s 0-0 draw with Sporting Lisbon in the Europa League encounter earlier this month.<\/p>\n

The England international landed awkwardly after leaping in the air to meet a cross just after the half hour mark against Sporting, and needed oxygen before being stretchered off the pitch<\/p>\n

According to The Times, Emery has given the green light to Arsenal\u2019s move for Pepe.<\/p>\n

The report claimed the 23-year-old would command a fee of around \u00a327million, but Arsenal will have to rival Tottenham Hotspur who are also interested in the Ivory Coast international.<\/p>\n

Pepe has scored eight goals and provided five assists so far in his thirteen Ligue 1 matches for Lille this term.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arsenal boss, Unai Emery has permitted the Gunners to sign \u00a327million Lille striker, Nicolas Pepe as Danny Welbeck\u2019s replacement at the club. Recall that the North London club had identified Pepe as Welbeck\u2019s replacement. Welbeck suffered a \u201ccareer-ending\u201d injury during Arsenal\u2019s 0-0 draw with Sporting Lisbon in the Europa League encounter earlier this month. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45048,"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":[4427,7321],"class_list":["post-63313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-arsenal","tag-unai-emery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63313","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=63313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}