{"id":34698,"date":"2014-07-26T07:17:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T07:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=34698"},"modified":"2014-07-26T07:17:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T07:17:19","slug":"calum-chambers-arsenal-set-to-sign-southampton-defender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=34698","title":{"rendered":"Calum Chambers: Arsenal set to sign Southampton defender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\" itemprop=\"description\">Arsenal are close to completing the signing of Southampton defender Calum Chambers for a fee of about \u00a316m.<\/p>\n<p>The England Under-19 international underwent a medical on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Chambers, 19, has made 25 senior appearances for the Saints and Arsenal see him as an option at right-back, centre-back or in a more advanced role.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal have also enquired about Saints midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin, 24, who played for France at the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Chambers would become Arsenal&#8217;s third summer signing following the arrivals of Barcelona forward\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/0\/football\/28177987\">Alexis Sanchez<\/a>\u00a0and Newcastle right-back<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/0\/football\/28358063\">Mathieu Debuchy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He would be the latest player to leave St Mary&#8217;s this summer following the departures of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/0\/football\/27629474\">Rickie Lambert<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/0\/football\/27371960\">Adam Lallana<\/a>\u00a0to Liverpool and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/0\/football\/28048866\">Luke Shaw<\/a>\u00a0to Manchester United.<\/p>\n<p>Defender\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/0\/football\/28492306\">Dejan Lovren is also set to undergo a medical with Liverpool<\/a>\u00a0after the clubs reached agreement on a \u00a320m move.<\/p>\n<p>And Tottenham have made an enquiry for Saints striker Jay Rodriguez.<\/p>\n<p>Any confirmed Chambers deal is likely to see right-back Carl Jenkinson, 22, leave Arsenal on loan to gain regular first-team football.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal are close to completing the signing of Southampton defender Calum Chambers for a fee of about \u00a316m. The England Under-19 international underwent a medical on Friday. Chambers, 19, has made 25 senior appearances for the Saints and Arsenal see him as an option at right-back, centre-back or in a more advanced role. Arsenal have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":34699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,3],"class_list":["post-34698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}