{"id":402,"date":"2026-08-04T22:38:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T22:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=402"},"modified":"2026-08-04T22:38:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T22:38:52","slug":"xavi-simons-arrives-in-london-for-transfer-talks-as-tottenham-look-to-beat-chelsea-to-rb-leipzig-stars-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=402","title":{"rendered":"Xavi Simons arrives in London for transfer talks as Tottenham look to beat Chelsea to RB Leipzig star&#8217;s signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\">\n<div>\n<p>Simons, who has a contract until 2027, has made clear his desire to leave this summer. Meanwhile, Spurs have already opened exploratory talks with the player\u2019s entourage, and salary demands are believed to be quite high, underlining Simons\u2019 confidence in his growing value. His agent, Ali Barat, has been instrumental in positioning him for a Premier League move, previously leaning towards Chelsea. Now, with the Blues pursuing alternatives, Spurs appear to have a free run. However, nothing is finalised yet and Tottenham have not tabled an official bid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-ng\/lists\/xavi-simons-arrives-london-transfer-talks-tottenham-beat-chelsea-rb-leipzig-star-signing\/bltc5b4c75c3bfe229e\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simons, who has a contract until 2027, has made clear his desire to leave this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","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\/402","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=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}