{"id":43947,"date":"2021-10-23T09:37:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T16:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=43947"},"modified":"2021-10-23T09:37:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T16:37:14","slug":"lyon-plan-january-bid-for-arsenal-and-tottenham-linked-striker-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/10\/23\/lyon-plan-january-bid-for-arsenal-and-tottenham-linked-striker-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyon plan January bid for Arsenal and Tottenham linked striker [Report]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>InsideFootball.com &#8211; LYON, <strong>French giants Lyon are ready to table an offer in January for Zenit Saint Petersburg striker Sardar Azmoun, who has also been linked with a move to Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 26-year-old striker was heavily linked with a move away from Zenit last summer and had offers from several clubs on his table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tottenham and Lyon were amongst the clubs who were interested in him last summer,\u00a0but Azmoun later revealed that the Russian giants blocked his exit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But his contract is set to expire at the end of the season and January could be the last chance for Zenit to recover a transfer from his sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And according to French outlet&nbsp;<em>Foot Mercato<\/em>, Lyon are ready to make another move for him in January and table a bid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has been claimed that the French club are prepared to put in a bid worth \u20ac7m to \u20ac8m for him in the winter window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Azmoun showing no signs of penning a new deal, Lyon are confident that Zenit will be prepared to offload him in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arsenal are also believed to be tracking the Iranian with a view to snapping him up on a free transfer next summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It remains to be seen whether either of Arsenal or Tottenham consider tabling bids for him in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>InsideFootball.com &#8211; LYON, French giants Lyon are ready to table an offer in January for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":43948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":727,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43947","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=43947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43949,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43947\/revisions\/43949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}