{"id":30101,"date":"2025-08-31T10:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T14:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/focus-on-arsenal-leverkusens-defense-a-step-away-from-london\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T10:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T14:17:09","slug":"focus-on-arsenal-leverkusens-defense-a-step-away-from-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/focus-on-arsenal-leverkusens-defense-a-step-away-from-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus on Arsenal: Leverkusen’s defense, a step away from London"},"content":{"rendered":"

Piero Hincapi\u00e9 close to joining Arsenal<\/h2>\n\nBayer Leverkusen defender Piero Hincapi\u00e9 is on his way to London to undergo medical examinations prior to his possible transfer to Arsenal.\n\nAccording to sources close to the negotiation, the agreement between the clubs was finalized on Saturday, after Leverkusen accepted an initial loan proposal with a clause that will make the transfer permanent next summer. The player has already agreed to the terms of his contract with the North London club.\n\nThe 23-year-old footballer was on the bench during his team’s 3-3 draw against Werder Bremen on Saturday, but took the opportunity to say goodbye to Leverkusen fans after the final whistle.\n\nArsenal coach Mikel Arteta has been key in this deal and, according to a source, called Xabi Alonso for references, as the Real Madrid coach managed Hincapi\u00e9 during his time at Leverkusen.\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\nPiero Hincapi\u00e9 seemed to say goodbye to Bayer Leverkusen fans after the team’s 3-3 draw with Werder Bremen on Saturday.\n\nAlonso also had Hincapi\u00e9 on his list of potential signings for Real Madrid, but the Madrid club did not finalize the transfer after the arrivals of Dean Huijsen and \u00c1lvaro Carreras.\n\nThe Arsenal have already spent more than \u00a3250 million ($338 million) in the summer market and cannot afford to sign Hincapi\u00e9 directly. Therefore, in recent days, they have been negotiating to convince their Leverkusen counterparts with a loan offer with the mandatory purchase clause.\n\nOn Monday, it was reported that Arsenal had made an approach to explore the possibility of signing Hincapi\u00e9 while negotiating the sale of Jakub Kiwior to Porto.\n\nInitially, Leverkusen intended to keep the central defender and the club’s initial response was to request the player’s release clause, valued at \u00a351.9 million. However, Arsenal made it clear from the start that they would not pay that amount and that they preferred to postpone the payment of the transfer to a later date.\n\nHincapi\u00e9’s willingness to leave Leverkusen to start a new adventure at Arsenal has been decisive in making the deal happen. Chelsea was also following the player’s situation.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Piero Hincapi\u00e9 close to joining Arsenal Bayer Leverkusen defender Piero Hincapi\u00e9 is on his way to London to undergo medical examinations prior to his possible transfer to Arsenal. According to sources close to the negotiation, the agreement between the clubs was finalized on Saturday, after Leverkusen accepted an initial loan proposal with a clause that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[140,8092,7791,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-30101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-leverkusen","10":"tag-piero-hincapie","11":"tag-transfer"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}