{"id":43852,"date":"2021-10-11T22:02:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T05:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=43852"},"modified":"2021-10-11T22:02:06","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T05:02:06","slug":"zenit-azmoun-in-advanced-talks-with-bayer-leverkusen-and-lyon-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/10\/11\/zenit-azmoun-in-advanced-talks-with-bayer-leverkusen-and-lyon-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Zenit, Azmoun in advanced talks with Bayer Leverkusen and Lyon [Report]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">90 Mins &#8211; ST. PETERSBURG, <strong>Bayer 04 Leverkusen\u00a0had already\u00a0shown great interest in Sardar Azmoun\u00a0in the summer.\u00a0Both parties are apparently still in contact &#8211; a free transfer in 2022 seems possible.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looking for reinforcements, Sardar Azmoun had been a hot topic at the Werkself before the start of the season.\u00a0According to consistent media reports, Bayer 04 was very interested in signing the Iranian attacker from Zenit St. Petersburg;\u00a0According to reports, a change for 14 million euros was even nearing completion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the\u00a0deal was\u00a0not brought\u00a0across the finish line, instead, the Leverkusen-based Lucas Alario was equipped with a new contract until 2024.\u00a0In addition to the Argentine and the already seeded Patrik Schick, there was no need for a third attacker who would have had ambitions for a regular place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the failed move, the two parties should still be in contact.\u00a0The Italian portal\u00a0<em>Calciomercato<\/em>\u00a0even reports that there are &#8220;advanced negotiations&#8221; about a change in the coming summer.\u00a0Then Azmoun&#8217;s contract with Zenit ends, the Iranian would therefore not cost a transfer.<br \/><br \/>To what extent the talks will affect the future of Alario and Schick remains open for the time being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to\u00a0<em>Calciomercato<\/em>, the French top club Olympique Lyon would also like\u00a0to\u00a0<em>sign<\/em>\u00a0the attacker on a free transfer basis: OL currently seems to be the worst competitor in the bidding for Azmoun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 26-year-old has impressively demonstrated in recent months that he knows where the goal is: after collecting a total of 25 scorer points (19 goals, six assists) in the Russian league in the 20\/21 season, he is now currently also back to six goals (five goals, one assists in nine games).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>90 Mins &#8211; ST. PETERSBURG, Bayer 04 Leverkusen\u00a0had already\u00a0shown great interest in Sardar Azmoun\u00a0in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":41306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":1423,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43852","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=43852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43853,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43852\/revisions\/43853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}