{"id":91685,"date":"2025-08-25T13:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T13:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/91685\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T13:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T13:28:08","slug":"piero-hincapie-arsenal-pursue-deal-for-bayer-leverkusen-defender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/91685\/","title":{"rendered":"Piero Hincapie: Arsenal pursue deal for Bayer Leverkusen defender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arsenal are interested in signing Bayer Leverkusen defender Piero Hincapie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Gunners want a left-sided defender as a priority this summer, with Ecuador international Hincapie emerging as a strong candidate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arsenal&#8217;s recruitment staff have watched the 23-year-old extensively, sources told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hincapie has a 60m euro (\u00a352m) release clause and is keen to leave the German club before the transfer window closes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has made 166 appearances in all competitions for Leverkusen since joining in 2021 and was part of the squad that won the Bundesliga and German Cup in 2023-24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arsenal have spent more than \u00a3200m on new signings this summer and are now working to sell players &#8211; with Fabio Vieira, Reiss Nelson and Oleksandr Zinchenko among those who could leave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There has also been some interest in centre-back Jakub Kiwior, with Porto among the clubs keen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tottenham have also been linked with a move for Hincapie, but sources insist he is not a player Spurs are currently pursuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal are interested in signing Bayer Leverkusen defender Piero Hincapie. The Gunners want a left-sided defender as a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-91685","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91685","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=91685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}