{"id":31217,"date":"2024-05-09T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/transfer-hell-take-you-forward-ray-parlour-tells-arsenal-to-sign-epl-star\/"},"modified":"2024-05-09T12:00:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T12:00:32","slug":"transfer-hell-take-you-forward-ray-parlour-tells-arsenal-to-sign-epl-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/transfer-hell-take-you-forward-ray-parlour-tells-arsenal-to-sign-epl-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer: \u2018He\u2019ll take you forward\u2019 Ray Parlour tells Arsenal to sign EPL star"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Arsenal midfielder, Ray Parlour has encouraged his old club to pursue a summer move for Newcastle United\u2019s Alexander Isak, even if it means shelling out a fee as hefty as the \u00a3100 million spent on Declan Rice.<\/p>\n<p>While Arsenal has made strides in challenging for the Premier League title under Mikel Arteta\u2019s guidance, they are aware that bolstering their squad in the transfer market will be essential to keep pace with Manchester City and maintain an edge over rivals such as Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester United, and Newcastle.<\/p>\n<p>Last summer, the Gunners made significant investments, splurging over \u00a3200 million on new recruits like Kai Havertz, Jurrien Timber, and England midfielder Declan Rice, who became the club\u2019s record signing after his move from West Ham.<\/p>\n<p>Parlour suggests that Arsenal may need to match the \u00a3100 million fee paid for Rice to secure Isak\u2019s services this summer, as he believes the Swedish striker could be the solution to their attacking woes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsak is the type of player who could do well in this Arsenal team,\u201d Parlour told Football FanCast on behalf of NetBet Sports Betting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe will suit Arsenal\u2019s fluid style of play and can do well in this team with the likes of Saka, Martinelli, Havertz, Trossard and Odegaard supporting him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s important to have quality strikers as we had in our era with Wiltord, Kanu, Henry and Bergkamp. However, Newcastle will not want to lose their top striker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFee wise, he will be similar to Rice\u2019s fee, so if Newcastle are forced to sell, then yes he would take Arsenal forward. Isak is a player I like a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Isak, 24, has emerged as one of the most impressive and dynamic players in the Premier League over the past two seasons, netting an impressive 34 goals for Newcastle.<\/p>\n<p>Transfer: \u2018He\u2019ll take you forward\u2019 Ray Parlour tells Arsenal to sign EPL star<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Arsenal midfielder, Ray Parlour has encouraged his old club to pursue a summer move for Newcastle United\u2019s Alexander Isak,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4130,194,15,8279,160,1693],"tags":[237,156,180,8281,8280,201,1695],"class_list":["post-31217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal","category-epl","category-news","category-ray-parlour","category-sport","category-transfer","tag-arsenal","tag-epl","tag-news","tag-parlour","tag-ray","tag-sport","tag-transfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}