{"id":97629,"date":"2025-08-20T20:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T20:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/97629\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T20:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T20:33:07","slug":"eberechi-eze-arsenal-bid-to-sign-crystal-palace-star-and-tottenham-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/97629\/","title":{"rendered":"Eberechi Eze: Arsenal bid to sign Crystal Palace star and Tottenham target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eberechi Eze is expected to join Arsenal for \u00a360m after the Gunners reached an agreement in principle to sign the forward from Crystal Palace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sources have told BBC Sport that Eze favours a move to Arsenal, with whom he started his youth career, despite north London rivals Tottenham having been in talks to sign him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A deal for Spurs to sign Eze had been agreed between the clubs after talks lasting 10 days, sources said, but it was not finalised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Gunners have concerns over a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c5y04nzlyv7o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">knee injury sustained by attacker Kai Havertz<\/a> and Eze, 27, would offer Mikel Arteta a fresh option in advanced areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Crystal Palace boss Oliver Glasner said on Wednesday that Eze would start in Thursday&#8217;s Uefa Conference League play-off tie against Fredrikstad, along with Liverpool-linked Marc Guehi, as they remain &#8220;committed to the team&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sources have told BBC Sport that Eze wants to join Arsenal before the transfer window closes on 1 September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eberechi Eze is expected to join Arsenal for \u00a360m after the Gunners reached an agreement in principle to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-97629","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\/97629","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=97629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}