{"id":656049,"date":"2025-06-23T04:07:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T08:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=656049"},"modified":"2025-06-23T04:07:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T08:07:20","slug":"gabriel-martinelli-bayern-munich-arsenal-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/06\/23\/gabriel-martinelli-bayern-munich-arsenal-transfer\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayern Munich Eye Shock Move for Arsenal Attacker After Contact Made"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite some clubs still playing competitive football at the Club World Cup, the transfer rumour mill continues to heat up.\u00a0<\/span>Arsenal<\/span><\/a> frustratingly fell away at the end of the Premier League season and will be eager to strengthen this summer, <\/span>closing<\/span> the gap on Liverpool. However, it appears they may face a fight to <\/span>hang on to<\/span> one of their star players, with\u00a0<\/span>Christian Falk<\/span><\/a> of Bild reporting that Bayern Munich have made contact with Gabriel Martinelli\u2019s management over a potential summer transfer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bayern Munich Turn to Premier League and Target Gabriel Martinelli<\/span><\/h2>\n

Arsenal Star Among Five-Man Bayern Munich Shortlist<\/span><\/h3>\n

With the summer transfer window rumour mill gathering steam, Bayern Munich are said to have contacted Martinelli\u2019s management with the hope of signing the Brazilian winger.\u00a0Martinelli is\u00a0reportedly\u00a0part of a five-man Bayern shortlist,\u00a0alongside\u00a0Nico Williams, Luis <\/span>Diaz<\/span>, Cody Gakpo and Jamie Gittens.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Times<\/span><\/a> has\u00a0also reported\u00a0on\u00a0the potential departure of Martinelli, floating the idea he could depart as part of a\u00a0clear-out\u00a0at the Emirates.\u00a0<\/span>It is suggested that Oleksandr Zinchenko, Reiss Nelson, Jakub Kiwior, F\u00e1bio Vieira and Albert Sambi Lokonga could also depart as Arsenal <\/span>look<\/span> to <\/span>bring down<\/span> the club’s wage bill.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gabriel Martinelli to Bayern Munich<\/span><\/h3>\n

Martinelli’s contract is\u00a0due\u00a0to expire in 2027, with Arsenal’s hierarchy reportedly\u00a0looking for\u00a0offers <\/span>in excess of<\/span> \u00a350 million. However, it is also\u00a0<\/span>reported\u00a0<\/span><\/a>that the North London club could take up the option and extend Martinelli’s deal by a further year.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Since moving to the Gunners, Martinelli has made 225 appearances, scoring 51 times and providing 29 assists. With no offer on the table thus far, any potential deal appears to be some way off, but with Bayern making contact, that interest now <\/span>appears<\/span> to be genuine. Bayern Munich have a track record of attracting world-class talent: could Gabriel Martinelli be their next high-profile signing?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite some clubs still playing competitive football at the Club World Cup, the transfer rumour mill continues to heat up.\u00a0Arsenal frustratingly fell away at the end of the Premier League season and will be eager to strengthen this summer, closing the gap on Liverpool. However, it appears they may face a fight to hang on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":647088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[4,8,1364,30,3,7188],"tags":[32320,9709,3564],"class_list":["post-656049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bundesliga","category-arsenal","category-bayern-munich","category-news","category-premier-league","category-rumours","tag-arsenal-transfer-rumours","tag-bayern-munich-transfer-rumours","tag-gabriel-martinelli"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656049","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\/4106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656049"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656052,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656049\/revisions\/656052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}