{"id":3216,"date":"2014-04-01T03:34:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T03:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=3216"},"modified":"2014-04-01T03:34:41","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T03:34:41","slug":"guardiolarummenigge-confirm-striker-is-staying-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/guardiolarummenigge-confirm-striker-is-staying-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardiola\/Rummenigge Confirm  Striker Is Staying In Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Toni Kroos&#8217; future lie with Bayern Munich, according to manager Pep Gardiola and club chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old midfielder, whose contract expires at the end of next season, has been heavily linked with a move to Manchester United in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>But Kroos, who will be a crucial member of the defending champions&#8217; midfield against United in their Champions League quarter-final tie in the absence of the injured Thiago Alcantara, is set to stay at the Allianz Arena.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Toni Kroos is sure to play in a Bayern Munich shirt next year as well,&#8221; Rummenigge told reporters before flying to Manchester on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Guardiola echoed those words, albeit without offering any assurances that the Germany international would stay beyond next season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Toni has one year more of a contract and Toni will remain,&#8221; Guardiola said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope he can extend his contract and stay with us because he is a very good guy, he loves his game, it is not just a job for him and I would like him to stay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I spoke with the player, with the club, I gave my opinion. After that I am not manager, I am just the trainer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toni Kroos&#8217; future lie with Bayern Munich, according to manager Pep Gardiola and club chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge. The 24-year-old midfielder, whose contract expires at the end of next season, has been heavily linked with a move to Manchester United in the summer. But Kroos, who will be a crucial member of the defending champions&#8217; midfield [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[115,60],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216"}],"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=3216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3218,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216\/revisions\/3218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}