{"id":1226,"date":"2014-01-31T21:57:32","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T21:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2014-01-31T21:57:32","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T21:57:32","slug":"monaco-signs-berbatov-to-cover-for-falcao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/monaco-signs-berbatov-to-cover-for-falcao\/","title":{"rendered":"Monaco signs Berbatov To Cover For Falcao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p itemprop=\"description\">Fulham striker Dimitar Berbatov has joined Ligue 1 club Monaco on loan until the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old, who is out of contract this summer, has scored five goals in 19 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>Berbatov was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/sport\/football\/transfer-news-dimitar-berbatov-in-line-for-tottenham-return--if-lewis-holtby-and-etienne-capoue-leave-9095960.html\">linked\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0with a return to his former club Tottenham but will see out the season in the French league.<\/p>\n<p>Monaco are likely to be without striker Radamel Falcao until next season after the Colombian\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/0\/football\/25853148\">sustained a serious knee injury.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former Manchester United striker Berbatov has scored 19 goals in 51 Premier League appearances for Fulham since leaving Old Trafford in August 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The Cottagers are 19th in the table, two points from safety.<\/p>\n<p>Monaco, meanwhile, are second in Ligue 1, six points adrift of Paris St-Germain.<\/p>\n<p>bbc.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fulham striker Dimitar Berbatov has joined Ligue 1 club Monaco on loan until the end of the season. The 33-year-old, who is out of contract this summer, has scored five goals in 19 games this season. Berbatov was\u00a0linked\u00a0\u00a0with a return to his former club Tottenham but will see out the season in the French league. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1227,"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\/1226"}],"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=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1228,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/1228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}