{"id":178,"date":"2026-03-18T00:23:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T00:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/?p=178"},"modified":"2026-03-18T00:23:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T00:23:22","slug":"arsenal-monitoring-transfer-targets-livramento-and-lukeba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal &#8216;monitoring&#8217; transfer targets Livramento and Lukeba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_79\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><strong>Arsenal have reportedly identified two defensive transfer targets ahead of the summer window as they set about refreshing the squad for next season. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Gunners are enjoying a strong campaign which is on track to end their six-year wait for a major trophy. They are currently top of the Premier League, play in the League Cup final this Sunday, and are still in the FA Cup and UEFA Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>The north London outfit have built an impressive squad capable of fighting on numerous fronts, but their post-season plans are already underway as they are looking at who to buy and sell.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Arsenal \u2018monitoring\u2019 transfer targets Livramento and Lukeba<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>According to The Times, Arsenal have been \u201cmonitoring\u201d Newcastle United right-back Tino Livramento and RB Leipzig centre-back Castello Lukeba, both of whom are 23-years-old.<\/p>\n<p>The pair could be bought this summer if the club sells a number of fringe players with uncertain futures. There are \u201cdoubts\u201d about the futures of Gabriel Martinelli, Myles Lewis-Skelly and Ethan Nwaneri.<\/p>\n<p>Martinelli has two years left on his contract, Lewis-Skelly has barely played this season after breaking through last year, while Nwaneri is currently on loan at Marseille.<\/p>\n<p>Jakub Kiwior is set to join FC Porto for \u00a317 million once his loan deal concludes at the end of this season. Reiss Nelson, F\u00e1bio Vieira and Karl Hein, who are all also on loan, are likely to be up for sale when the window opens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Read \u2013\u00a0Players who played for both Arsenal and Bayer Leverkusen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Read More \u2013 The only Brazilians to reach 100 Premier League goal involvements<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>See Also \u2013\u00a0Thierry Henry\u2019s poise, Roy Keane\u2019s red mist and the most iconic Premier League imagery of the 2000s<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Follow the Football Faithful on Social Media:<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Facebook\u00a0|\u00a0Instagram\u00a0| <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FootyFaithful_\">Twitter<\/a> | YouTube | TikTok<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal have reportedly identified two defensive transfer targets ahead of the summer window as they<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}