{"id":2153,"date":"2017-12-02T16:01:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T15:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arsenaltalk.co.uk\/?p=2153"},"modified":"2018-01-27T14:18:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T13:18:52","slug":"president-confirms-arsenal-will-meet-53million-to-sign-striker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arsenaltalk.co.uk\/?p=2153","title":{"rendered":"President confirms Arsenal will meet \u00a353million to sign striker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Real Madrid president Florentino Perez is reportedly confident that he can offload Karim Benzema this summer as Arsenal are ready to pay as much as \u00a353million for the transfer of the France international.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Benzema has struggled to find his best form the reigning European champions this season, but has generally been one of Europe&#8217;s top centre-forwards for much of the last season, winning three Champions League titles among other major honours at the Bernabeu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He could be a great fit for the Gunners come at the time over Alexis Sanchez&#8217;s future, with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/sport\/football\/transfer-news\/psg-lead-manchester-city-alexis-11586913\"><strong>Daily Mirror<\/strong><\/a> recently reporting that oil-rich Paris Saint-Germain are steeping up their interest in the Chile international as he nears the end of his contract.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This would be a major blow for Arsenal, and Arsene Wenger would surely need to bring in a big name to the club to make up for Sanchez&#8217;s departure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Spanish publication, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donbalon.com\/noticia\/detalle\/71371\/cuatro-jugadores-florentino-perez-pone-calle-traer-neymar-real-madrid\"><strong>Don Balon<\/strong><\/a>, Real Madrid believe Arsenal will come in for Benzema and pay as much as \u00a353m to bring home to the Emirates Stadium to make the necessary additions to their attack next summer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Arsenal have also been linked elsewhere with a move for Olympique Lyonnias attacking midfielder Nabil Fekir, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/sport\/football\/659544\/Arsenal-close-to-signing-Lyon-star-Nabil-Fekir-EXCLUSIVE-Mesut-Ozil-Alexis-Sanchez\"><strong>Daily Star<\/strong><\/a> recently suggesting a \u00a360million deal could be edging closer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If both these claims are true, it looks like the Gunners fans can rest assured that Wenger is well prepared to replace Sanchez and fellow contract rebel Mesut Ozil next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid president Florentino Perez is reportedly confident that he can offload Karim Benzema this summer as Arsenal are ready to pay as much as \u00a353million for the transfer of the France international. Benzema has struggled to find his best form the reigning European champions this season, but has generally been one of Europe&#8217;s top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,35],"tags":[76,141,110,142],"class_list":["post-2153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arsenal-fc","category-premier-league","tag-arsene-wenger","tag-karim-benzema","tag-mesut-ozil","tag-zinedine-zidane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arsenaltalk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arsenaltalk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arsenaltalk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arsenaltalk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arsenaltalk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.arsenaltalk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2174,"href":"https:\/\/www.arsenaltalk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions\/2174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arsenaltalk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arsenaltalk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arsenaltalk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}