{"id":1075,"date":"2014-01-27T17:38:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T17:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2014-01-27T18:04:35","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T18:04:35","slug":"puma-to-kit-arsenal-as-wenger-chases-fergusons-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/puma-to-kit-arsenal-as-wenger-chases-fergusons-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Puma To Kit Arsenal, As Wenger Chases Ferguson&#8217;s Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Premiership leaders, Arsenal have\u00a0\u00a0revealed a new multi-million pound kit manufacturing deal with German company Puma as manager Arsene Wenger is set to sign a new contract.<\/p>\n<p>Chief executive Gazidis said at the formal confirmation of the kit deal that the club was excited to partner with Puma, &#8221;a company whose football heritage and record of innovation have a strong affinity with our own. This represents another important step forward in Arsenal&#8217;s progression on and off the pitch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The agreement shows Puma&#8217;s determination to re-establish itself as a core sports brand under new CEO Bjoern Gulden after moving more into lifestyle and fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Puma has also acquired the rights to produce other branded Arsenal merchandise that will be sold to fans around the world.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the contract status of his manager, Gazidis gave Arsenal fans the news they wanted to hear and said: &#8220;Arsene will be extending with us and at the right time we will make that announcement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Premiership leaders, Arsenal have\u00a0\u00a0revealed a new multi-million pound kit manufacturing deal with German company Puma as manager Arsene Wenger is set to sign a new contract. Chief executive Gazidis said at the formal confirmation of the kit deal that the club was excited to partner with Puma, &#8221;a company whose football heritage and record [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,80],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1085,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions\/1085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}