{"id":468064,"date":"2026-03-10T16:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/468064\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T16:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:42:15","slug":"arsenal-have-agreed-first-summer-signing-with-contract-details-revealed-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/468064\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal have agreed first summer signing with contract details revealed: report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arsenal have already agreed their first transfer of the summer window with months of the current season still to run.<\/p>\n

Mikel Arteta<\/a>\u2019s men look odds-on favourites to lift their first Premier League<\/a> title since 2004, having built up a seven-point lead at the top with less than 10 games to go.<\/p>\n

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Still in all four major competitions, the Basque boss will need to manage his squad carefully, but there\u2019s no getting away from the fact they\u2019re in a good spot.<\/p>\n

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Arsenal agree first signing of the summer transfer window<\/p>\n

Arteta\u2019s focus is very much on the now, but the wider team around him need to take a longer view than that, preparing for the seasons ahead regardless of what happens this term.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, the Gunners have already landed their first summer signing.<\/p>\n

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With four trophies on the line, Arsenal are already looking to the future (Image credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Piero Hincapie<\/a> is a name very familiar to those connected with Arsenal, given he has been on loan from Bayer Leverkusen<\/a> since last summer.<\/p>\n

That temporary switch came with an option to buy to the tune of \u00a345m which, according to transfer guru Fabrizio Romano<\/a>, is set to be activated.<\/p>\n

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The Italian journalist confirmed that the contract between Hincapie and Arsenal is already signed, a five-year agreement that will keep the Ecuador<\/a> international in north London until at least 2031.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s already signed and completed,\u201d Romano stated on his YouTube channel. \u201cPiero Hincapie already feels as an Arsenal player on a permanent transfer.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old has already started 21 games for the Gunners, splitting his time between centre-back and left-back, and making a strong impression on the club.<\/p>\n

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Piero Hincapie has made a strong impression on loan at Arsenal (Image credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

In FourFourTwo\u2019s opinion, getting this agreed early makes perfect sense.<\/p>\n

Arsenal clearly have plenty of use for Hincapie and Arteta appears to be happy with the defender, so it makes little sense delaying the decision until the summer.<\/p>\n

As pointed out by Romano in the same video, this is similar to what the Gunners did with David Raya<\/a>, loaning him first from Brentford<\/a> before making the deal permanent. If the selling club is up for it, it\u2019s a perfect way for Arteta\u2019s side to try before they buy and avoid costly transfer mistakes.<\/p>\n

Hincapie is valued at \u20ac50m, according to Transfermarkt<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal have already agreed their first transfer of the summer window with months of the current season still…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-468064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}