{"id":125958,"date":"2025-08-07T09:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T09:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/125958\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T09:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T09:19:08","slug":"the-reason-arsenal-and-tottenham-havent-made-a-move-for-rodrygo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/125958\/","title":{"rendered":"The reason Arsenal and Tottenham haven\u2019t made a move for Rodrygo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>TBR Football have been exclusively informed that Arsenal and Tottenham are waiting for a signal from Rodrygo before making a move for the Real Madrid forward.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Brazil international seems surplus to requirements under <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/topic\/xabi-alonso\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Xabi Alonso<\/a>, who only handed the South American 92 minutes of action at the FIFA Club World Cup earlier this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Graeme Bailey \u2013 Chief Correspondent at <strong>TBR Football<\/strong> \u2013 can now share details on why <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/topic\/arsenal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/topic\/tottenham-hotspur\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tottenham<\/a> are yet to make an official bid for <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/topic\/rodrygo-goes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rodrygo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Exclusive: Arsenal and Tottenham wary of being \u201cused\u201d in battle to sign Rodrygo<\/p>\n<p>We understand Arsenal and Tottenham are waiting for the Brazilian to signal a desire to leave the Santiago Bernabeu for England before making offers.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal are able to afford a deal for <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/andrea-berta-ready-to-make-100m-star-one-of-arsenals-top-earners-he-could-match-bukayo-saka\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rodrygo \u2013 who Real Madrid want \u00a370m for<\/a> \u2013 despite already spending over \u00a3190m on new recruits.<\/p>\n<p>Tottenham can also finance a deal after Heung-min Son moved to LAFC.<\/p>\n<p>Bailey said: \u201cRodrygo is still very much on the radar \u2013 it\u2019s natural when a player of that calibre comes up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArsenal and Tottenham just want to make sure it\u2019s what Rodrygo wants, and that they\u2019re not going to be used to make bids and then the player says no. They\u2019re smarter than that. I think the next week or so will be hugely telling for Rodrygo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Should Arsenal or Tottenham make official bids for the 24-year-old, only to be rejected, it would tell other clubs just how much of the budget has been set aside for a new winger, possibly making negotiations for an alternative tougher. <\/p>\n<p>Liverpool also monitoring Rodrygo<\/p>\n<p>After selling <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/luis-diazs-camp-reveals-how-he-really-feels-about-leaving-liverpool-for-bayern-munich\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luis Diaz to Bayern Munich<\/a> in a \u00a365m deal, Liverpool also have a vacancy for a new attacker on the left flank.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TBR Football<\/strong> understand <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/liverpool-take-next-steps-to-sign-arsenal-target-rodrygo-as-richard-hughes-continues-spree-post-ekitike-deal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool are interested in Rodrygo<\/a> and he remains an option to replace the Colombian, although Arne Slot has also been left impressed by the 16-year-old Rio Ngumoha this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Hughes \u2013 Director of Football at Anfield \u2013 is understood to be a huge fan of the Real Madrid attacker. <\/p>\n<p>Evidently, <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/tottenham-could-sign-player-jude-bellingham-thinks-is-better-than-kylian-mbappe-and-vinicius-junior\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rodrygo \u2013 who Jude Bellingham rates above Kylian Mbappe<\/a> \u2013 is not short of admirers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TBR Football have been exclusively informed that Arsenal and Tottenham are waiting for a signal from Rodrygo before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":125959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[5407,6649,10215,221,62,11131,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-125958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-english-premier-league","10":"tag-rodrygo","11":"tag-soccer","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tottenham-hotspur","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114986743606194025","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125958","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=125958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}