{"id":1396,"date":"2026-06-04T11:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2026-06-04T11:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:20:18","slug":"jose-mourinho-wants-to-sign-arsenal-defender-riccardo-calafiori-as-part-of-real-madrid-rebuild-despite-discarding-italian-when-he-was-at-roma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=1396","title":{"rendered":"Jose Mourinho wants to sign Arsenal defender Riccardo Calafiori as part of Real Madrid rebuild despite discarding Italian when he was at Roma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\" data-affiliate-button-variant=\"B\">\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\"><span>While Arsenal are well stocked in the left-back department with the likes of Piero Hincapie and Myles Lewis-Skelly, losing a regular international like Calafiori would be a significant blow to Arteta\u2019s project. The defender was notably the odd man out for the Champions League final, although he was carrying an injury at the time. Real Madrid may see this as an opportunity to test Arsenal\u2019s resolve with a substantial offer in the coming weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\"><span>With Perez promising to bring &#8220;the best players&#8221; to the Bernabeu amid the electoral battle, the race for Calafiori&#8217;s signature is set to become one of the primary sagas of the summer transfer window as Mourinho begins his rebuild in Spain.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Arsenal are well stocked in the left-back department with the likes of Piero Hincapie and Myles Lewis-Skelly, losing a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}