{"id":11079,"date":"2026-05-20T02:23:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T02:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=11079"},"modified":"2026-05-20T02:23:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T02:23:38","slug":"arsenal-rekindle-vlahovic-chase-forest-bullish-over-keeping-morgan-gibbs-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=11079","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal rekindle Vlahovic chase; Forest bullish over keeping Morgan Gibbs-White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-blocks\">\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\"><b>Tuesday&#8217;s transfer talks includes Arsenal interest in a former flame, and Nottingham Forest&#8217;s confidence over Morgan Gibbs-White&#8217;s future.<\/b><\/div>\n<p>Arsenal&#8217;s investment in recent windows means the Gunners will need to sell before substantial signings this summer.<\/p>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\">As a result, the North Londoners are on the lookout for potential bargains, with an old target back on their radar. According to Mundo Deportivo, Arsenal are &#8216;closely monitoring&#8217; <b>Dusan Vlahovic<\/b> as the forward nears the end of his contract at Juventus. The Serbian striker could be targeted with doubts over the future of <b>Gabriel Jesus.<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\">Nottingham Forest face a fight to hold onto <b>Morgan Gibbs-White<\/b> as Premier League rivals circle for the midfielder. Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur have both expressed &#8216;strong interest&#8217; in the 26-year-old after an impressive campaign. Despite that, TEAMtalk tell us that Forest are confident of keeping him out of their clutches.<\/div>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\">Spurs could look to raise funds for that pursuit by offloading <b>Christian Romero<\/b> and <b>William Vicar.<\/b> As part of a planned rebuild this summer, both Romero and Vicario are free to go, regardless of their top-flight status. Give Me Sport report that both are expected to leave.<\/div>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\">Across London, Chelsea are one of several teams expressing interest in <b>Ousmane Diomande.<\/b> The Sporting centre-back has received approaches from the Blues, Bayern Munich, and Paris Saint-Germain, according to Flavio Costa. Sporting have received plenty of cash from Premier League teams in recent years and could offload another asset to England for a big fee.<\/div>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\">Another side seeking some of those Premier League riches are Club Brugge. The Belgian side will demand a club record fee for <b>Christos Tzolis<\/b> this summer amid interest from Aston Villa and Manchester United.<\/div>\n<p>The one-time Norwich City flop has rebuilt his reputation in Belgium, and GVA report that Brugge will demand the bidding starts at \u20ac36m.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday&#8217;s transfer talks includes Arsenal interest in a former flame, and Nottingham Forest&#8217;s confidence over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}