{"id":1015785,"date":"2026-08-21T22:15:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T22:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1015785\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T22:15:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T22:15:23","slug":"aston-villa-and-fc-barcelona-join-tottenham-hotspur-in-the-transfer-battle-for-folarin-balogun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1015785\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa and FC Barcelona join Tottenham Hotspur in the transfer battle for Folarin Balogun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the mounting interest from England and Spain, Monaco head coach Filipe Luis remains desperate to keep his key man. Speaking recently about the striker, Luis explained the situation and acknowledged the inevitable bids. &#8220;He is one of our players. I know he\u2019s going to receive a lot of offers given his last season and his World Cup performance,&#8221; Luis stated. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He\u2019s a special player. You don\u2019t find many players on the market with his attributes. If he stays, I\u2019ll be really, really happy to have him with us.&#8221; Balogun missed the recent 3-2 Europa Conference League playoff victory over Gornik Zabrze in Poland but has been registered on the UEFA squad list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite the mounting interest from England and Spain, Monaco head coach Filipe Luis remains desperate to keep his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1015786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[45],"tags":[18496,1386,406394,23958,19831,220,221,62,11131,18066,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1015785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-aston-villa","tag-barcelona","tag-f-balogun","tag-laliga","tag-monaco","tag-premier-league","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-tottenham-hotspur","tag-transfers","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117135810674379441","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1015786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}