{"id":197072,"date":"2025-08-11T18:40:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T18:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/arsenal-eyeing-rodrygo-as-fallback-option-to-eze\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T18:40:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T18:40:25","slug":"arsenal-eyeing-rodrygo-as-fallback-option-to-eze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/arsenal-eyeing-rodrygo-as-fallback-option-to-eze\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal eyeing Rodrygo as fallback option to Eze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><br \/><strong>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caughtoffside.com\/2025\/08\/11\/sources-100-million-fee-attacker-liverpool-arsenal\" rel=\"nofollow  noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Caught Offside<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/topics\/arsenal\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Arsenal News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arsenal<\/a> will target a move for <a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/tag\/real-madrid\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"29\" title=\"Real Madrid news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Real Madrid<\/a> winger Rodrygo if they can\u2019t secure the services of Crystal Palace star Eberechi Eze this summer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Gunners have bolstered their frontline with the additions of Noni Madueke and Viktor Gyokeres, but manager <a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/tag\/mikel-arteta\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"18\" title=\"Mikel Arteta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mikel Arteta<\/a> may want more attacking ammunition to challenge for the <a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/tag\/premier-league\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"21\" title=\"Premier League\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Premier League<\/a> title next season.<\/p>\n<p>Eze has been regularly linked with a move to the Emirates Stadium, but Arsenal have a fallback option if a <a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/tag\/transfer-rumours\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Transfer rumours\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transfer<\/a> does not materialise. <em>Caught Offside<\/em> claim that Rodrygo has been identified as the alternate choice.<\/p>\n<p>Madrid could be prepared to sanction his sale for a package between \u00a378 million and\u00a0\u00a387 million this summer.<\/p>\n<h3>Difficult deal<\/h3>\n<p>The Gunners have already spent almost \u00a3200 million on new signings and further recruits could depend on player sales. They have earmarked Eze as a top target. His release clause worth <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SamiMokbel_BBC\/status\/1950962273435918677\" rel=\"nofollow \" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">\u00a368 million<\/span><\/a> has expired, but Palace could still do business for the right price.<\/p>\n<p>Eze has vast Premier League experience. He is primarily an attacking midfielder, but can also provide an outlet from the left wing. The Englishman possesses strong dribbling skills, a good physique and has the ability to score and create goals in the final third.<\/p>\n<p>If Arsenal are unable to strike a deal for Eze, we simply don\u2019t see how they will afford Rodrygo. The Gunners obviously want a discount to land the former, they are unlikely to make a higher outlay to purchase Rodrygo from Los Blancos this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Hence, it appears a difficult deal for the Gunners to complete unless the club can recoup plenty of funds from a selling spree. Their prospects of landing Rodrygo are slim, with <a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/topics\/man-city-news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"6\" title=\"Man City news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manchester City<\/a> said to be <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1954880317753356760\" rel=\"nofollow \" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">preparing an approach<\/span><\/a> for the Brazilian this month.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Grealish has already left for <a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/tag\/everton\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"25\" title=\"Everton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Everton<\/a> on loan while Savinho and James McAtee seem close to joining <a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/topics\/tottenham-hotspur\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Tottenham news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tottenham<\/a> Hotspur and Nottingham Forest respectively. The triple exit could pave the way for City to make a big-money move for Rodrygo.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping this in mind, Arsenal seem unlikely to pursue a deal for Rodrygo at the current point of time.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--mvp-post-tags--><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--posts-nav-link--><\/p>\n<div class=\"mvp-org-wrap\" itemprop=\"publisher\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Organization\">\n<div class=\"mvp-org-logo\" itemprop=\"logo\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/new-logo.png\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/new-logo.png\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><!--mvp-org-logo--><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Football Talk | Premier League News\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><!--mvp-org-wrap-->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/220025\/arsenal-eyeing-rodrygo-as-fallback-option-to-eze\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Caught Offside, Arsenal will target a move for Real Madrid winger Rodrygo if they can\u2019t secure the services of Crystal Palace star Eberechi Eze this summer. The Gunners have bolstered their frontline with the additions of Noni Madueke and Viktor Gyokeres, but manager Mikel Arteta may want more attacking ammunition to challenge for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":197073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6807],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-197072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leagues-cups"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}