{"id":1221,"date":"2014-01-31T21:08:24","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T21:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2014-01-31T21:14:12","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T21:14:12","slug":"arsenal-signs-sweden-midfielder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/arsenal-signs-sweden-midfielder\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal Signs Sweden Midfielder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p itemprop=\"description\">Arsenal have completed the signing of Sweden midfielder Kim Kallstrom on loan until the end of the season from Russian club Spartak Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old will provide cover for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/0\/football\/25976438\">injured Aaron Ramsey<\/a>\u00a0and Jack Wilshere, while Mathieu Flamini is suspended for the next three games.<\/p>\n<p>Wenger said: &#8220;He has proven quality at both club and international level. We welcome Kim to Arsenal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the Gunners boss has ruled out buying Schalke&#8217;s Julian Draxler.<\/p>\n<p>Kallstrom said: &#8220;Arsenal is an amazing club with a lot of great players and a coach who has done really well here for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am so pleased to come here to learn as much as possible. I&#8217;m here to do my best for Arsenal and to help out the team, so we can achieve good results for the last part of the season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe Draxler situation has been created by the newspapers, not by me&#8230; he will stay at Schalke\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Arsene Wenger<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kallstrom joined Spartak in 2012 following a six-year spell with Lyon, where he played more than 200 games and helped the French side to the Champions League semi-finals in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Wenger added: &#8220;We&#8217;ve been hit by the red card of Flamini, and Jack Wilshere is also not available. So in the area where we had plenty of players, suddenly we are a bit short.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Attacking midfielder Draxler, 20, who has played 10 times for Germany, was linked with a move to Arsenal and reportedly would have cost \u00a337m.<\/p>\n<p>He helped Schalke make it out of the group stage of the Champions League before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>The German side will play Real Madrid over two legs in the last 16.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Draxler situation has been created by the newspapers, not by me. He will stay at Schalke,&#8221; said Wenger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal have completed the signing of Sweden midfielder Kim Kallstrom on loan until the end of the season from Russian club Spartak Moscow. The 31-year-old will provide cover for the\u00a0injured Aaron Ramsey\u00a0and Jack Wilshere, while Mathieu Flamini is suspended for the next three games. Wenger said: &#8220;He has proven quality at both club and international [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1222,"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\/1221"}],"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=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1224,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions\/1224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}