{"id":107601,"date":"2025-08-24T23:48:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T23:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/107601\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T23:48:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T23:48:20","slug":"turkish-club-join-race-for-out-of-favour-arsenal-midfielder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/107601\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish club join race for out-of-favour Arsenal midfielder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Trabzonspor have added Albert Sambi Lokonga to their summer shortlist, assessing the financial side of a potential deal for the Arsenal midfielder.<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/rcd-espanyol-de-barcelona-v-sevilla-fc-la-liga-ea-sports-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"BARCELONA, SPAIN - OCTOBER 25: Albert Sambi Lokonga of Sevilla FC shows appreciation to the fans following the LaLiga match between RCD Espanyol de Barcelona and Sevilla FC at RCDE Stadium on October 25, 2024 in Barcelona, Spain. (Photo by Alex Caparros\/Getty Images)\" class=\"wp-image-311953\" title=\"Turkish club join race for out-of-favour Arsenal midfielder 2\"\/>Photo by Alex Caparros\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u00d6mer Necati Albayrak of Turkish outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/fanatikcomtr\/status\/1959286259311894568\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fanatik<\/a> reports that Trabzonspor have added Arsenal\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycannon.com\/tag\/albert-sambi-lokonga\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Albert Sambi Lokonga<\/a> to their shortlist.<\/p>\n<p>Trabzonspor are currently conducting a cost analysis regarding the player, ahead of a possible move late in the summer transfer window.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/sevilla-fc-v-girona-fc-la-liga-ea-sports-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"SEVILLE, SPAIN - SEPTEMBER 01: Albert Sambi Lokonga of Sevilla FC controls the ball whilst under pressure from Ivan Martin of Girona FC during the LaLiga match between Sevilla FC and Girona FC at Estadio Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan on September 01, 2024 in Seville, Spain. (Photo by Fran Santiago\/Getty Images)\" class=\"wp-image-311952\" title=\"Turkish club join race for out-of-favour Arsenal midfielder 3\"\/>Photo by Fran Santiago\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Whilst most of the top European leagues close for business on September 1st, the Turkish Super Lig window will remain open until September 11th, giving Trabzonspor an extra 10 days to sign Lokonga when compared to many European rivals.<\/p>\n<p>Though the only other <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycannon.com\/2025\/08\/paok-lokonga-arsenal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported interest<\/a> in Lokonga comes from Greece, with PAOK FC interested in signing another player from Arsenal \u2013 having brought in Chuba Akpom from the Gunners in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Like in Turkey, the Greek Super League window doesn\u2019t close until September 12th. So it seems the two competing clubs for Lokonga\u2019s signature are actually on relatively even footing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/sheffield-united-v-luton-town-premier-league.jpg\" alt=\"SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND: Albert Sambi Lokonga of Luton Town celebrates victory at full-time following the Premier League match between Sheffield United and Luton Town at Bramall Lane on December 26, 2023. (Photo by George Wood\/Getty Images)\" class=\"wp-image-289732\" title=\"Turkish club join race for out-of-favour Arsenal midfielder 4\" \/>Photo by George Wood\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Lokonga spent last season on loan with Sevilla, and they had an option to buy in the deal. But after a poor league campaign for the club and a couple of injury problems for the player, there was never much chance they\u2019d agree to pay the purchase clause.<\/p>\n<p>Lokonga has made 39 appearances for Arsenal since his 2021 transfer from RSC Anderlecht, the last of which was in January 2023. Loans to Crystal Palace, Luton Town, and Sevilla have followed.<\/p>\n<p>The Belgian international did join the team on tour during pre-season this summer, but he didn\u2019t make any appearances on the pitch. It seems unlikely the player will be involved for <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycannon.com\/tag\/mikel-arteta\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mikel Arteta\u2019s<\/a> team this campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Related Posts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trabzonspor have added Albert Sambi Lokonga to their summer shortlist, assessing the financial side of a potential deal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[53753,53754,403,99,70951],"class_list":["post-107601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-albert-sambi-lokonga","tag-paok","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-trabzonspor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}