{"id":1168,"date":"2014-01-30T01:30:28","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T01:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=1168"},"modified":"2014-01-30T01:48:48","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T01:48:48","slug":"city-chase-wenger-to-an-emergency-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/city-chase-wenger-to-an-emergency-market\/","title":{"rendered":"City Chase Wenger To An Emergency Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The shock of being overthrown in the league and seeing their title hopes rocked has forced Arsene Wenger\u00a0to make a last minute deal in the January transfer as the Gunners reached an agreement to sign Juventus&#8217; Mirko Vucinic on loan for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The Montenegro international will have a medical at the London club on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Vucinic trained on his own at Juventus on Wednesday ahead of a possible last-minute move in the January transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>The 30 year old has only started eight\u00a0Serie\u00a0A games for the Italian champions this season, scoring twice, and is keen to secure a move in order to play regularly.<\/p>\n<p>The striker could fill a void for Arsenal in the short-term, but having represented\u00a0Juve\u00a0in the Champions League this season he would be cup-tied and not eligible for Arsenal in that competition.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal have looked at Real Madrid&#8217;s Alvaro\u00a0Morata, Barcelona&#8217;s Cristian\u00a0Tello\u00a0and Schalke&#8217;s JulianDraxler\u00a0as\u00a0Arsene\u00a0Wenger\u00a0considers his attacking options ahead of the title run-in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The shock of being overthrown in the league and seeing their title hopes rocked has forced Arsene Wenger\u00a0to make a last minute deal in the January transfer as the Gunners reached an agreement to sign Juventus&#8217; Mirko Vucinic on loan for the rest of the season. The Montenegro international will have a medical at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168"}],"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=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1170,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions\/1170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}