{"id":1691,"date":"2026-04-02T11:49:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/?p=1691"},"modified":"2026-04-02T11:49:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:49:16","slug":"lukeba-price-tag-revealed-as-premier-league-teams-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/?p=1691","title":{"rendered":"Lukeba price tag revealed as Premier League teams circle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_65\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><strong>RB Leipzig will accept a bid below Castello Lukeba\u2019s release clause this summer amid interest in the defender.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lukeba is keen to explore his options ahead of the summer transfer window with both Bayern Munich and Premier League teams interested.<\/p>\n<p>The Frenchman has a release clause of \u20ac80m (\u00a369.8m) in his contract with the German side, though Leipzig are prepared to negotiate on that fee. Sky Germany claim an offer in the region of \u20ac65m (\u00a356.7m) could be enough to persuade Leipzig to sell.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool have been linked with the 23-year-old, who is \u2018keen on a new challenge\u2019 after three seasons in the Bundesliga. He has earned a single cap for France and hopes a high-profile transfer can earn him a regular place with Les Bleus.<\/p>\n<p>A natural left-footer with high-quality distribution, Lukeba ranks in the top 3% of defenders across Europe for progressive passes completed. He also sits among the top 14% for percentage of defensive duels won.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Read \u2013\u00a0Premier League players who shone in the international break<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>See more \u2013\u00a0Liverpool and Chelsea court Kounde amid Barcelona stance<\/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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FootyFaithful\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thefootballfaithfull\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FootyFaithful_\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCUgN0WQEhxRbfTdlbkEG7zQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a><\/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><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RB Leipzig will accept a bid below Castello Lukeba\u2019s release clause this summer amid interest in the defender. Lukeba is keen to explore his options ahead of the summer transfer window with both Bayern Munich and Premier League teams interested. The Frenchman has a release clause of \u20ac80m (\u00a369.8m) in his contract with the German [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}