{"id":331,"date":"2026-08-04T07:17:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T07:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=331"},"modified":"2026-08-04T07:17:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T07:17:03","slug":"tottenham-to-hijack-chelseas-xavi-simons-deal-spurs-go-back-in-for-rb-leipzig-star-after-missing-out-on-eberechi-eze-with-move-to-london-rivals-stalling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=331","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham to hijack Chelsea&#8217;s Xavi Simons deal?! Spurs go back in for RB Leipzig star after missing out on Eberechi Eze with move to London rivals stalling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"article-teaser\" class=\"article_teaser__rjxUK\">Tottenham Hotspur are hoping to hijack Chelsea&#8217;s move for Xavi Simons after missing out on signing Eberechi Eze, who joined their arch-rivals Arsenal. The Blues have been interested in Simons for quite some time now, while the Dutch international is also keen on moving to Stamford Bridge. However, with Chelsea also showing interest in Fermin Lopez, Spurs could swoop in and secure Simons&#8217; transfer.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body_body__ASOmp body\" data-testid=\"article-body\">\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Spurs looking to hijack Chelsea&#8217;s move for Simons<\/li>\n<li>Determined to sign a new attacking midfielder<\/li>\n<li>Blues remain favourites to sign Dutchman\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"fco-responsive-table\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-ng\/lists\/tottenham-hijack-chelsea-xavi-simons-deal-go-back-in-for-rb-leipzig-star-missing-out-on-eberechi-eze\/bltbc45e2a4782269e5\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham Hotspur are hoping to hijack Chelsea&#8217;s move for Xavi Simons after missing out on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}