{"id":456277,"date":"2023-08-25T13:39:13","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T09:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=456277"},"modified":"2023-08-25T13:39:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T09:39:13","slug":"monaco-set-to-sign-balogun-from-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/monaco-set-to-sign-balogun-from-arsenal\/","title":{"rendered":"Monaco set to sign Balogun from Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monaco are in a pole position to land the Gunners forward Folarin Balogun as negotiations between the clubs continue, and the transfer fee will be around 49 million dollars.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udd34\u26aa\ufe0f | FOLARIN BALOGUN UPDATE\u203c\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udea8 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@FabrizioRomano<\/a> confirms that Arsenal striker Folarin Balogun has agreed to join Monaco. Clubs close on reaching a deal. \u00a340m-\u00a345m. \u2705<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea and Tottenham both enquired and were told \u00a370m. West Ham also held interest in the player. \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8<\/p>\n<p>The\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6hXNuHxM8d\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/6hXNuHxM8d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Punch Drunk Arsenal (@PunchDrunkAFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PunchDrunkAFC\/status\/1694963279897010669?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The other teams interested in signing Balogun \u2013 Inter and Chelsea are not as close as Monaco as the Premier League team and the Ligue 1 team are in the final steps to finalize the transfer fee add-ons.<\/p>\n<p>The American striker hasn\u2019t played in Arsenal games since the beginning of the new campaign and wants to leave to be a starter after he did phenomenal while on loan in Reims, where he netted 21 goals in 37 matches in the French league.<\/p>\n<p>If the London side sold Folarin for the fee being discussed at the moment, it would surpass the record sum recouped by the Gunners for a player \u2013 44 million dollars from Liverpool for Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monaco are in a pole position to land the Gunners forward Folarin Balogun as negotiations between the clubs continue, and the transfer fee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":456278,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17383,19396,20759,17317],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[20760,17886,366,6112],"acf":{"announce":"The French side will pay almost 50 million dollars for the striker.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/456277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/456277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456279,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/456277\/revisions\/456279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456277"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=456277"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=456277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}