{"id":128734,"date":"2025-05-24T19:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T19:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/128734\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T19:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T19:01:09","slug":"40m-player-is-now-more-likely-to-sign-for-arsenal-than-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/128734\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a340m player is now more likely to sign for Arsenal than Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The summer transfer window is just around the corner, and the Premier League\u2019s biggest clubs are starting to make their moves.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/fabrizio-romano-says-andrea-berta-has-agreed-deal-and-is-about-to-make-his-first-arsenal-signing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arsenal are set to sign Martin Zubimendi<\/a> this summer, while <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/fabrizio-romano-shares-really-important-news-hes-now-hearing-about-florian-wirtz-and-liverpool\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liverpool are in for Florian Wirtz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal and Liverpool have both moved early this summer, and both teams have been linked to similar targets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/__trashed-7\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alexander Isak has been linked to both Liverpool and Arsenal<\/a>, while Real Madrid\u2019s Rodrygo was on both teams\u2019 radar at one point.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the Highbury Squad YouTube channel, Ben Jacobs has been discussing Rodrygo\u2019s future, and he says that Liverpool are now out of this race, and that Arsenal are the Premier League club who are most seriously exploring a deal for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11835\/11406047\/real-madrid-agree-deal-for-rodrygo-goes-who-will-join-in-july-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a340m<\/a> man.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2210058127-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Jose Breton\/Pics Action\/NurPhoto via Getty Images\" class=\"wp-image-948032\" \/>Photo by Jose Breton\/Pics Action\/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesLiverpool out of Rodrygo race while Arsenal remain keen<\/p>\n<p>Jacobs shared what he knows about Rodrygo as the Brazilian potentially gears up to leave Real Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>The journalist says that Liverpool are now out of this race, while Arsenal are indeed still looking into a potential deal.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I broke six weeks ago, Rodrygo and Premier League clubs is one to watch. The three I was told was Liverpool \u2013 who are now not in the race, but they were aware of the opportunity, Arsenal and Chelsea,\u201d Jacobs said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChelsea don\u2019t yet know what they want to do with their wide players, with Rodrygo, I think Chelsea are now less inclined to do that deal, but Arsenal are still exploring it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rodrygo compared to Florian Wirtz<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal and Liverpool could both make marquee attacking signings this summer in the shape of Rodrygo and Florian Wirtz respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Both players would be very exciting signings, but, statistically, Wirtz has been outshining Rodrygo.<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td>Rodrygo<\/td>\n<td\/>\n<td>Florian Wirtz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>30<\/td>\n<td>Games<\/td>\n<td>31<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>Goals<\/td>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>Assists<\/td>\n<td>12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p>League stats this season<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there\u2019s important context to put in place here.<\/p>\n<p>Wirtz is the main man at Bayer Leverkusen, meanwhile, Rodrygo is Real Madrid\u2019s least high-profile attacking outlet behind the likes of Kylian Mbappe, Jude Bellingham and Vinicius Jr.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that, these two players do play different roles and positions too.<\/p>\n<p>Rodrygo and Wirtz could well end up being the two statement signings of the summer, and they may ultimately define who ends up becoming Premier League champions next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The summer transfer window is just around the corner, and the Premier League\u2019s biggest clubs are starting to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[161,162,94,179,56771,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-128734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-english-premier-league","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-rodrygo-goes","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114564359054790344","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}