{"id":2379,"date":"2014-03-03T23:23:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T23:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=2379"},"modified":"2014-03-04T01:05:28","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T01:05:28","slug":"2379","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/2379\/","title":{"rendered":"Wenger&#8217;s Secret Target"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p itemprop=\"description\">\n<p itemprop=\"description\">Arsene Wenger admits to being a fan of Real Sociedad&#8217;s Antoine Griezmann, but appreciates that he is not the only one.<\/p>\n<p>The French midfielder was rumoured to be a top target for the Gunners during the January transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>No move was made, though, and the 22-year-old remains in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>There may, however, be an approach being readied at Emirates Stadium, with thoughts already starting to turn towards the summer market.<\/p>\n<p>Wenger likes to keep his transfer cards close to his chest and has refused to be drawn on whether a bid will be tabled.<\/p>\n<p>But the Gunners boss has admitted to being among those closely monitoring Griezmann&#8217;s situation.<\/p>\n<p>He told French football television show Telefoot: &#8220;Yes, we follow him in great detail.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He attracts other clubs as well. But we follow him, he is a known commodity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>sky<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div data-src=\"http:\/\/www1.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11670\/9194655\/transfer-news-arsenal-among-those-monitoring-antoine-greizmann\" data-widget-id=\"AR_1\" data-ob-template=\"365MediaGroup\" data-ob-mark=\"true\" data-browser=\"chrome\" data-os=\"win32\" data-dynload=\"\"><wbr \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsene Wenger admits to being a fan of Real Sociedad&#8217;s Antoine Griezmann, but appreciates that he is not the only one. The French midfielder was rumoured to be a top target for the Gunners during the January transfer window. No move was made, though, and the 22-year-old remains in Spain. There may, however, be an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2380,"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\/2379"}],"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=2379"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2385,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379\/revisions\/2385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}