{"id":604036,"date":"2026-09-02T21:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T21:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/604036\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T21:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T21:56:09","slug":"signing-of-the-summer-rio-ferdinand-backs-arsenals-34m-christos-tzolis-to-be-one-of-the-best-deals-of-the-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/604036\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Signing of the summer!&#8217; &#8211; Rio Ferdinand backs Arsenal\u2019s \u00a334m Christos Tzolis to be one of the best deals of the window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ferdinand believes that Arsenal have secured the absolute bargain of the transfer window with their \u00a334m acquisition of Tzolis from Club Brugge. Despite the Gunners spending big on several high-profile names following their first Premier League title in over two decades, it is the 24-year-old winger who has most impressed the former England captain.<\/p>\n<p>Ferdinand, speaking on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s4YQGf9Eh0g&amp;t=1165s\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YouTube channel<\/a>, was quick to single out the Greek star for his immediate impact and technical quality. &#8220;Who is the best signing of the transfer window? From what I\u2019ve seen so far, I\u2019m going to go for Tzolis,&#8221; Ferdinand said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the price you got him for, \u00a335m, from what I\u2019ve seen, jinky little winger, great vision, making good decisions in the final third. I think, great bit of business done by the recruitment team at Arsenal. I\u2019m going to go early, I\u2019m going to say he\u2019s going to be my signing of the season, as in terms of value, and in terms of what he does.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ferdinand believes that Arsenal have secured the absolute bargain of the transfer window with their \u00a334m acquisition of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4026,273000,85,46,2619,272999,105],"class_list":["post-604036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-arsenal","tag-c-tzolis","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-premier-league","tag-r-ferdinand","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}