{"id":13417,"date":"2025-08-21T08:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T08:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/13417\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T08:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T08:02:09","slug":"miguel-delaney-how-arsenal-silently-pulled-off-the-mother-of-all-transfer-hijackings-by-swooping-for-eagles-eberechi-eze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/13417\/","title":{"rendered":"Miguel Delaney: How Arsenal silently pulled off the mother of all transfer hijackings by swooping for Eagles\u2019 Eberechi Eze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Crystal Palace's Eberechi Eze during a training session in London yesterday. Photo: John Walton\/PA Wire\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/6d35ded3-d6dc-4304-bbca-a6a774d4969e.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Crystal Palace&#8217;s Eberechi Eze during a training session in London yesterday. Photo: John Walton\/PA Wire<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Just hours before Arsenal clinched a deal for Eberechi Eze, somewhat cruelly, Tottenham Hotspur finally put in the offer they felt would be acceptable to Crystal Palace. There had been a verbal agreement. Spurs just never got a proper answer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">After days of difficult and painstaking negotiations between Daniel Levy and Steve Parish, Arsenal had appeared to steal in within a matter of mere hours. That has already seen this move cast as the mother of all transfer hijackings, especially with how it is another North London derby victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crystal Palace&#8217;s Eberechi Eze during a training session in London yesterday. Photo: John Walton\/PA Wire Just hours before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[2725,5000,18,19,17,132,3613],"class_list":{"0":"post-13417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-crystal-palace","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tottenham-hotspur"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}