{"id":4457,"date":"2026-05-05T21:34:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=4457"},"modified":"2026-05-05T21:34:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:34:57","slug":"how-successful-was-last-summers-transfer-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=4457","title":{"rendered":"How Successful Was Last Summer\u2019s Transfer Window?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<article>\n<nav class=\"c-post-article-pagination\"><\/nav>\n<p><strong>Arsenal spent nearly \u00a3300m (including Piero Hincapie\u2019s purchase option) last summer in a bid to mount a serious title challenge.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The investment has undoubtedly paid off, with the Gunners just three wins away from <strong>winning the league<\/strong> for the first time in over two decades.<\/p>\n<p>However, some of the new additions have proven to be more successful than others.<\/p>\n<p>Press the next page as we assess the club\u2019s transfer activity last year and rank each signing out of 10.<\/p>\n<nav class=\"c-post-article-pagination\"><\/nav>\n<\/article><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal spent nearly \u00a3300m (including Piero Hincapie\u2019s purchase option) last summer in a bid to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4457","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\/4457","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=4457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}