{"id":604392,"date":"2026-07-26T02:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T02:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/604392\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T02:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T02:11:14","slug":"arsenal-make-shock-approach-to-sign-brazil-star-vinicius-junior-from-real-madrid-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/604392\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal make shock approach to sign Brazil star Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior from Real Madrid \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arsenal<\/a> are exploring a shock deal to sign Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior<\/a> from Real Madrid<\/a>. The Premier League champions have inquired about the Brazil international, who has one year remaining on his contract at the Bernab\u00e9u.<\/p>\n

It is believed any move for Vin\u00edcius \u2013 who scored 22 goals for Real last season and four for Brazil at the World Cup \u2013 is at a formative stage as Mikel Arteta seeks a marquee signing to build on the club\u2019s first league title in more than two decades.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old Vin\u00edcius fits that bill, with Atl\u00e9tico Madrid\u2019s Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez, RB Leipzig\u2019s Yan Diomande and Bradley Barcola of Paris Saint-Germain also on their radar.<\/p>\n

Arsenal bolstered their attacking options with the \u00a334 million signing of Christos Tzolis from Club Brugge this week. Morgan Rogers had also been identified as a target, but it is believed Arsenal were not prepared to pay more than \u00a380 million for the England international, who has joined Chelsea in a \u00a3117 million deal \u2013 a British record fee.<\/p>\n

Vin\u00edcius\u2019s future at Real is uncertain after Jos\u00e9 Mourinho\u2019s return and the club could cash in on the player, rather than risk losing him for nothing in a year\u2019s time.<\/p>\n

Mourinho, who has signed a three-year deal at the Bernab\u00e9u, was criticised for comments he made after Vin\u00edcius accused Benfica\u2019s Gianluca Prestianni of racially abusing him during a Champions League tie in February. Mourinho, Benfica manager at the time, said \u201csomething happens, always\u201d in matches where Vin\u00edcius plays. Prestianni was banned for six matches after he admitted to using homophobic language towards Vinicius.<\/p>\n

Tzolis followed Piero Hincapi\u00e9 \u2013 who turned his temporary deal into a full-time switch \u2013 and the goalkeeper Illan Meslier, who was out of contract at Leeds, as Arsenal\u2019s third addition.<\/p>\n

Bruno Guimar\u00e3es could also move to the Emirates with Arsenal keen on signing the Brazil international. After Newcastle\u2019s 1-1 pre-season draw at Gateshead on Saturday, Eddie Howe said: \u201cWe don\u2019t want to lose our best players. I\u2019ve spoken to him [Guimar\u00e3es] as I would do. Bruno is just a fantastic person. We\u2019ve had some really good conversations, both before the World Cup, during the World Cup and after the World Cup.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen with Bruno\u2019s future. That\u2019s for other people to speculate about.\u201d \u2013 Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal are exploring a shock deal to sign Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior from Real Madrid. The Premier League champions have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[2725,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,5134,7,8,87112],"class_list":["post-604392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-arsenal","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-real-madrid","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-vinicius-junior"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116983856228129068","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604392","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=604392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}