{"id":345048,"date":"2019-01-22T10:50:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T15:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=345048"},"modified":"2019-01-22T14:35:38","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T19:35:38","slug":"ftn-latest-rodriguez-janssen-and-mepham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2019\/01\/22\/ftn-latest-rodriguez-janssen-and-mepham\/","title":{"rendered":"FTN: Latest On James Rodriguez, Janssen and Mepham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Football Transfer News can bring you updates on James Rodriguez, Vincent Janssen and Chris Mepham.<\/p>\n<h1>Latest On James Rodriguez, Janssen and Mepham<\/h1>\n<h2>Where Will James Rodriguez Go?<\/h2>\n<p>Colombian midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/715bf047\/James-Rodriguez\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James Rodriguez<\/a> is linked with a move to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/arsenal\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arsenal.<\/a> The Gunners have reportedly made initial contact for a loan deal.<\/p>\n<p>However, the deal is made complicated by the fact he is already on loan at <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/bayern-munich\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bayern Munich<\/a>. Rodriguez will be returning to parent club <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/real-madrid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Real Madrid<\/a> at the end of the season and wants to fight for his place. He may find this difficult though, as Madrid have been linked with signing <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/a39bb753\/Eden-Hazard\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eden Hazard<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/980522ec\/Christian-Eriksen\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Christian Eriksen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although Rodriguez has been linked with Arsenal for much of this window, it could be <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/category\/premier-league\/tottenham\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tottenham<\/a> who sign him. Real Madrid are keen for him to move to Spurs, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/sport\/football\/transfers\/arsenal-transfer-news-latest-james-rodriguez-real-madrid-bayern-munich-loan-watch-video-live-now-a8738431.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to the Independent<\/a>, as this could pave the way for Eriksen to move to the Bernabeu.<\/p>\n<h2>Janssen to Leave Spurs?<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/31dce0c8\/Vincent-Janssen\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vincent Janssen<\/a> has had a tough time at Tottenham. He has just two goals for them and spent last season on loan at Turkish club Fenerbache. This has resulted in Spurs looking to offload the Dutchman.<\/p>\n<p>Having signed for \u00a312 million, Spurs are willing to take a \u00a35 million hit on the 23-year-old. He has already been attracting interest from <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/burnley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Burnley<\/a>, as well as clubs in China and the United States.<\/p>\n<h2>Mepham Nearing Completion For Bournemouth?<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/fed96827\/Chris-Mepham\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Mepham&#8217;s<\/a> deal to join <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/bournemouth\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bournemouth<\/a> is almost complete. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11743\/11614317\/brentfords-chris-mepham-set-for-bournemouth-move-after-deal-agreed\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">According to Sky Sports<\/a>, a fee in the region of \u00a312 million has been agreed with Brentford. He is set to have his medical today.<\/p>\n<p>It will be a transfer that pleases both Eddie Howe and Bournemouth, as they have been long-term admirers. They have previously tried to sign the centre-back multiple times, including in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Mepham has made 22 appearances for Brentford this season.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo\u00a0<a id=\"NX63IgzlR_Z79zXIWgbSAA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1083515750\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'NX63IgzlR_Z79zXIWgbSAA',sig:'kQK2vNR54eWA6AAheqM1kFdUop4FDYlTrITItsfGL94=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1083515750',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Football Transfer News can bring you updates on James Rodriguez, Vincent Janssen and Chris Mepham. Latest On James Rodriguez, Janssen and Mepham Where Will James Rodriguez Go? Colombian midfielder James Rodriguez is linked with a move to Arsenal. The Gunners have reportedly made initial contact for a loan deal. However, the deal is made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2795,"featured_media":345193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,8,9,1366,24],"tags":[159,32738,53,1377,3308,93,1297,1111,96,319],"class_list":["post-345048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transfers","category-arsenal","category-bournemouth","category-real-madrid","category-tottenham","tag-afc-bournemouth","tag-arsenal-fixtures","tag-bayern-munich","tag-brentford","tag-chris-mepham","tag-fenerbahce","tag-football-transfer-news","tag-james-rodriguez","tag-tottenham-hotspur","tag-vincent-janssen"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}