{"id":367205,"date":"2025-08-23T12:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T12:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/367205\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T12:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T12:26:10","slug":"transfer-news-live-lammens-to-man-utd-twist-arsenal-next-deal-close-football-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/367205\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer news LIVE: Lammens to Man Utd twist, Arsenal next deal close | Football | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RB Leipzig sporting director Marcel Schafer has confirmed that his side are in talks with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/chelsea-fc\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chelsea<\/a> over the sale of Xavi Simons.<\/p>\n<p>The playmaker featured for Leipzig in their 6-0 defeat at the hands of Bayern on Friday, and Schafer confirmed that the decision for the Dutchman to play was due to how their was no agreement in place for his departure.<\/p>\n<p>He explained: \u201cAs of today, Xavi will stay with us. We\u2019ve always said that we make all decisions based on sporting and financial considerations, and that\u2019s why Xavi is our player and why he played today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe transfer market is still open. You never know what\u2019ll happen. I can\u2019t guarantee that 100%. Everyone knows about his ambitions. He\u2019s also told us that. There have certainly been a few exchanges [with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/chelsea-fc\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chelsea<\/a>] in recent weeks. As we saw today, Xavi was in the starting line-up. So, there has been no agreement yet. And that\u2019s why it will remain that way for now.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RB Leipzig sporting director Marcel Schafer has confirmed that his side are in talks with Chelsea over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[9261,6167,748,6274,393,4884,179,763,1036,423,101,10652,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-367205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-alexander-isak","9":"tag-arsenal-fc","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-chelsea-fc","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-liverpool","15":"tag-liverpool-fc","16":"tag-manchester-city-fc","17":"tag-manchester-united-fc","18":"tag-premier-league","19":"tag-tottenham-hotspur-fc","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115078075738434527","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367205","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=367205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}