{"id":984511,"date":"2026-08-06T12:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T12:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/984511\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T12:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T12:33:14","slug":"after-guimaraes-arsenal-focus-on-the-fifth-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/984511\/","title":{"rendered":"After Guimar\u00e3es: Arsenal focus on the fifth signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:start\">Arsenal are preparing to submit a new bid for Aston Villa defender Ezri Konsa, having moved to the brink of signing Newcastle United captain Bruno Guimaraes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">The Premier League champions have already snapped up Christos Tzolis and Illan Meslier, and have activated a clause to sign Piero Hincapie permanently after his loan spell last season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">A fourth deal is now close. Arsenal have finally reached an agreement to sign Guimaraes following lengthy negotiations with Newcastle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">The Brazilian has already completed his medical at Arsenal and is set to bolster Mikel Arteta&#8217;s midfield options.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">Arteta&#8217;s side are not done there. They remain hopeful of pulling off a huge signing in Vinicius Junior from Real Madrid.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">In another development, the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/sport\/football\/article-16029863\/Arsenal-agree-75m-deal-Bruno-Guimaraes-Man-United-land-14m-goalkeeper-Mo-Salah-flies-Turkey-WINDOW-WATCH.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\">Daily Mail<\/a>&#8221; report that Arsenal are preparing a second bid for England defender Konsa, as they look to strengthen their defence after William Saliba suffered a back injury playing for France at the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">Arsenal made an initial bid for Konsa earlier in the summer, but that offer reportedly fell well below Villa&#8217;s \u00a360 million valuation of the 28-year-old.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">They haven&#8217;t given up hope of landing their top centre-back target, and could test Villa&#8217;s resolve again with a fresh bid.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">Unai Emery&#8217;s side have already waved goodbye to Morgan Rogers, Youri Tielemans and Lucas Digne this summer, so they are under no financial pressure to sell Konsa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">According to the newspaper, Aston Villa will only consider letting Konsa move to the Emirates Stadium if they first find a suitable replacement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">Konsa featured in all eight of England&#8217;s matches at the World Cup this summer, as the Three Lions finished third for their best placing since 1966.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal are preparing to submit a new bid for Aston Villa defender Ezri Konsa, having moved to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":984512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[45],"tags":[5407,395012,395011,221,62,18066,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-984511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-arsenal","tag-b-guimaraes","tag-e-konsa","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-transfers","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984511","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=984511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/984512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}