{"id":613830,"date":"2026-09-04T03:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T03:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/613830\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T03:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T03:54:11","slug":"transfers-martinelli-leaves-arsenal-in-al-hilal-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/613830\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfers: Martinelli leaves Arsenal in Al-Hilal switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gabriel Martinelli&#8217;s \u00a360million (\u20ac70m) move to Saudi Arabian side Al-Hilal has been confirmed as he becomes Arsenal\u2019s most lucrative transfer departure.<\/p>\n<p>The fee paid for the Brazil international \u2013 perhaps surprisingly deemed surplus to requirements by the Premier League champions \u2013 eclipses Alex Oxlade Chamberlain\u2019s \u00a335m (\u20ac40m) exit to Liverpool in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Martinelli\u2019s move to the Saudi Pro League comes after fellow left-sided forward<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/soccer\/2026\/0714\/1583284-pl-transfers-brighton-sign-vuskovic-from-tottenham\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Leandro Trossard was sold to Besiktas.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although the Gunners signed Christos Tzolis from Club Brugge, the departures of both Martinelli and Trossard \u2013 who scored a combined 19 goals for the club last year \u2013 opens Arsenal up to being exposed in that area of the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Eberechi Eze will feature more as a left-sided forward this season while the belief at the club is that both Noni Madueke and Bukayo Saka can also operate on that flank, too.<\/p>\n<p>Martinelli, who has played nearly 300 times for the Gunners across seven seasons, was left out of Arsenal\u2019s squad for their Community Shield win against Manchester City and subsequent Premier League victories over Coventry and Aston Villa.<\/p>\n<p>While the Premier League transfer window closed on Tuesday, the deadline for the Saudi Pro League is on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gabriel Martinelli&#8217;s \u00a360million (\u20ac70m) move to Saudi Arabian side Al-Hilal has been confirmed as he becomes Arsenal\u2019s most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-613830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}