{"id":43803,"date":"2021-10-08T18:32:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T01:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=43803"},"modified":"2021-10-08T18:39:56","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T01:39:56","slug":"arsenal-considering-sardar-azmoun-as-lacazette-replacement-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/10\/08\/arsenal-considering-sardar-azmoun-as-lacazette-replacement-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal considering Sardar Azmoun as Lacazette replacement [Report]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Sun &#8211; LONDON, <strong>ARSENAL have identified Zenit St Petersburg forward Sardar Azmoun as a potential Alexandre Lacazette replacement, according to reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lacazette is wanted by a host of top European clubs, including LaLiga champions Atletico Madrid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 30-year-old&#8217;s contract expires next June, meaning a&nbsp;pre-contract can be arranged from January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And according to French outlet&nbsp;Onze Mondial, Zenit&#8217;s Azmoun &#8211; dubbed the &#8216;Iranian&nbsp;Lionel Messi&#8217; &#8211; is on the&nbsp;Gunners&#8217; list to replace the Frenchman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Iranian forward impressively scored 19 goals in 29 appearances for the Russian club last season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His form alerted clubs from across the continent, including&nbsp;Arsenal&#8217;s north London rivals Tottenham&nbsp;&#8211; who were seeking out a potential replacement for Harry Kane if the forward made the move to Manchester City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Italian giants AC Milan were also interested in signing the 26-year-old in the summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Azmoun publicly declared he had offers from clubs in England, France, Germany, and Italy in the summer transfer window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But insisted Zenit could stop him from moving, and if he was to move away, he would wait until next summer when he becomes a free agent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said: &#8220;I have a contract. Even if I wanted to leave Zenit, they can stop me and there is nothing I can do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI had offers from Tottenham, Lyon, Bayer Leverkusen, and Roma, and Zenit refused them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf I leave, I will do it next summer as a free agent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sun &#8211; LONDON, ARSENAL have identified Zenit St Petersburg forward Sardar Azmoun as a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":43809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":1596,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43810,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43803\/revisions\/43810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}