{"id":23718,"date":"2022-07-16T06:01:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T10:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/07\/16\/arsenal-and-manchester-united-join-the-race-for-calvin-bassey\/"},"modified":"2022-07-16T06:01:03","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T10:01:03","slug":"arsenal-and-manchester-united-join-the-race-for-calvin-bassey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/07\/16\/arsenal-and-manchester-united-join-the-race-for-calvin-bassey\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal and Manchester United join the race for Calvin Bassey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<hr>\n<p>Manchester United and Arsenal are the latest clubs to join the race for Calvin Bassey.<\/p>\n<p>The left-back had a very impressive season at Rangers playing a key role in helping them reach the Europa League final.<\/p>\n<p>Now, many top clubs are looking to take the 22-year-old away from Ibrox this summer.<\/p>\n<h2>The race for Bassey is on!<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">? Race is on for Calvin Bassey \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mufc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#mufc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bhafc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#bhafc<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ajax?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ajax<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/arsenal?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#arsenal<\/a> all interested in signing him.<\/p>\n<p>Boom ? ? ?? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qONktWdI6s\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/qONktWdI6s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TheSecretScout (@TheSecretScout_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheSecretScout_\/status\/1548047149807546370?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Arsenal, Ajax, Manchester United and Brighton are all interested in signing Bassey, as per <strong>TheSecretScout<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners are looking for a new left-back with Kieran Tierney\u2019s injury troubles and Nuno Tavares set to leave.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Devils would likely need to sell both Luke Shaw and Alex Telles to bring him in, having just signed Tyrell Malacia.<\/p>\n<p>Brighton may need a new left-back with Marc Cucurella being strongly linked with a move to Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Ajax have just signed Owen Wijndal, meaning they are now unlikely to firm up their interest in the Nigerian.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, a move to either Arsenal or Brighton seems the most likely outcome at this stage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ryan Taylor<\/strong> reports that he would cost around \u00a325 million.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Rangers keen to encourage an auction for Calvin Bassey. Ajax, who view Nigerian as Lisandro Mart\u00ednez replacement, currently highest bidders. Brighton have also made an offer. Asking price: \u00a325m but with race hotting up, any sale could surpass that figure. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RangersFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RangersFC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ajax?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ajax<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BHAFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BHAFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ryan Taylor (@RyanTaylorSport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RyanTaylorSport\/status\/1548201510508449792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United and Arsenal are the latest clubs to join the race for Calvin Bassey. The left-back had a very impressive season at Rangers playing a key role in helping them reach the Europa League final. Now, many top clubs are looking to take the 22-year-old away from Ibrox this summer. The race for Bassey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-23718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-football","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}