{"id":672693,"date":"2026-07-25T09:03:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T13:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=672693"},"modified":"2026-07-25T09:21:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T13:21:42","slug":"arsenal-chase-vinicius-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/07\/25\/arsenal-chase-vinicius-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal Exploring Deal for World Cup Star Amid Contract Uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arsenal<\/a><\/span> will be entering the new Premier League season as the reigning champions after winning the 2025\/26 title. Ahead of the new season, Mikel Arteta will be eager to strengthen his squad, with their rivals all looking to strengthen. According to David Ornstein and James McNicholas<\/span><\/a>, the Gunners are exploring a move to sign Real Madrid star Vinicius Junior.<\/p>\n

Arsenal Looking to Strengthen Ahead of 2026\/27 Season<\/h2>\n

Arsenal Explore Deal for Vinicius Junior<\/h3>\n

Real Madrid winger Vinicius Junior enjoyed an impressive 2026 World Cup despite Brazil’s underwhelming performance, with the winger scoring four goals in five appearances. The Gunners missed out on Morgan Rogers, who has now signed for Chelsea in a huge \u00a3117 million deal<\/a>. Leandro Trossard has departed the Emirates this summer, meaning Arsenal are targeting attacking reinforcements. Vinicius Junior reportedly figures prominently on a list of targets for the reigning Premier League champions.<\/p>\n

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Vinicius Jr has entered the last 12 months of his current deal, with Arsenal exploring a move to sign the Brazilian should he decide not to extend his current deal in Madrid.<\/p>\n

It appears the interest is at an early stage, and the player has yet to make his feelings known regarding his future. There have been no club-to-club talks yet, but the potential move has been approved internally at the Emirates.<\/p>\n

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The Magnitude of a Vinicius Junior Signing<\/h3>\n

Vinicius Junior is a superstar who has made a total of 375 appearances for Real Madrid, scoring 128 times, while registering 100 assists.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Whether Arsenal can pull this deal off remains to be seen, but the intent will excite the Gunners faithful and show them that the club are prepared to target the biggest names to retain their Premier League crown and go one step further in Europe, after losing on penalties to Paris Saint-Germain in last season\u2019s final.<\/p>\n

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Should they sign the Brazilian, they will be signing a player with blistering pace. His ball-carrying ability is elite, and he\u2019s clinical in front of goal. He\u2019s a player that would not only captivate the Gunners faithful, but also send a clear warning to the whole of Europe that Arsenal are here to challenge consistently.<\/p>\n

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IMAGO \/ Paul Marriott<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arsenal will be entering the new Premier League season as the reigning champions after winning the 2025\/26 title. Ahead of the new season, Mikel Arteta will be eager to strengthen his squad, with their rivals all looking to strengthen. According to David Ornstein and James McNicholas, the Gunners are exploring a move to sign Real […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":658602,"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":[8,30,3,7188],"tags":[32320,3017],"class_list":["post-672693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal","category-news","category-premier-league","category-rumours","tag-arsenal-transfer-rumours","tag-vinicius-jr"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672693","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=672693"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":672701,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672693\/revisions\/672701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}