{"id":5282,"date":"2016-08-11T16:31:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T14:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefootballfreak.com\/?p=5282"},"modified":"2021-08-18T15:09:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T14:09:22","slug":"arsenal-close-to-breakthrough-shkrodan-mustafi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefootballfreak.com\/arsenal-close-to-breakthrough-shkrodan-mustafi\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Agrees to Join: Arsenal make breakthrough with superb target – reports"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arsene Wenger’s tempo in the transfer market often generates the thought that he may be better suited to the world of cricket.<\/p>\n

And it must be infuriating for Arsenal fans to see how slowly these deals generally get done when the club has been positively aching for a top centre back and a top striker for years.<\/p>\n

But all may not be lost. Because if Arsenal can get a deal over the line for Shkrodan Mustafi the club will immediately improve their first XI and have found a perfect successor for the ever slowing Per Mertesacker. Merstesacker is an able and highly experienced player who can still play an important squad role.<\/p>\n

But it’s time that The Gunners freshened up with a truly convincing partner for Laurent Koscielny. And Mustafi looks like the real deal.<\/p>\n

Reports today suggest that talks are ongoing for a player who may end up costing up to \u00a330m. But TFF thinks that, in today’s market, he’s worth every penny. <\/p>\n

Highly respected British media outlet, The Times<\/a>, reckons: <\/p>\n

Arsenal close to \u00a320m deal for Mustafi<\/strong><\/p>\n

Arsenal are moving towards a breakthrough in negotiations to sign Shkodran Mustafi<\/strong><\/p>\n

And Sky Sports<\/a> went further this afternoon by stating that:<\/p>\n

To the latest on Arsenal\u2019s pursuit of Shkodran Mustafi now, and our colleagues at Sky in Germany report the Valencia defender has agreed to join the club.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And The London Evening Standard<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Shkodran Mustafi has agreed personal terms with Arsenal as the Gunners move closer to adding their second significant signing of the transfer window.
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https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0ZLnfHeHGUE<\/p>\n

Arsene Wenger can often resemble a tight grandma where it comes to spending money but he must recognise the quality of the investment that he would be making with a player who is forcing is way into the German national side despite the presence of Mats Hummels and Benedikt Howedes. <\/p>\n

Indeed, we believe that Wenger’s biggest problem could be holding on to a player who will surely attract further interest from other clubs in his career.<\/p>\n

But, for now, the mission must be to get this one done and dusted in the next few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Time to finish it […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":4267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[161,335],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefootballfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefootballfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefootballfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefootballfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefootballfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thefootballfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12302,"href":"https:\/\/thefootballfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5282\/revisions\/12302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefootballfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefootballfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefootballfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefootballfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}