{"id":831661,"date":"2026-08-31T07:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T07:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/831661\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T07:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T07:22:17","slug":"transfer-deadline-day-2026-what-deals-could-still-happen-before-window-closes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/831661\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer deadline day 2026: What deals could still happen before window closes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Julian Alvarez&#8217;s potential move to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/arsenal\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a> could be the biggest deal to watch, with the Atletico Madrid striker&#8217;s future now hanging in the balance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 26-year-old is caught between his desire to leave Atletico and the club&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c980e1d2vpgo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">refusal to sell him to Barcelona.<\/a> But they would do a deal with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/arsenal\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Gunners have had a long-term interest in Alvarez and have been monitoring the dramatic situation, with Atleti looking for a fee of 150m euros (\u00a3128m).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alvarez has missed multiple training sessions and did not travel to face Sevilla on Saturday, with Simeone saying he wasn&#8217;t well enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Simeone, meanwhile, has attempted to keep the door open, saying he will &#8220;do everything&#8221; he can to make Alvarez feel important when he returns to training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Julian Alvarez&#8217;s potential move to Arsenal could be the biggest deal to watch, with the Atletico Madrid striker&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-831661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831661","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=831661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}