{"id":3489,"date":"2014-04-13T04:18:20","date_gmt":"2014-04-13T04:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=3489"},"modified":"2014-04-13T04:18:20","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T04:18:20","slug":"nigeria-international-sets-to-join-italian-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/nigeria-international-sets-to-join-italian-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria International Sets To Join Italian Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>John Obi Mikel&#8217;s days as Chelsea player are now numbered as Inter Milan are closing in on the midfielder.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<i>London Evening Standard<\/i>\u00a0says Inter have stepped up their efforts to sign Obi Mikel this summer in a deal worth in excess of \u00a310million.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria international has been at the club for eight years having been signed from Lyn Oslo during Jose Mourinho\u2019s first spell.<\/p>\n<p>But Mikel has fallen out of favour since the turn of the year, starting just two League games, and has not been in the starting line-up since the FA Cup fifth-round defeat by Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>Mikel, a key member of the Super Eagles team to this year&#8217;s FIFA World Cup in Brazil is expected to finalise his transfer to the Italian side before the global tournament.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Obi Mikel&#8217;s days as Chelsea player are now numbered as Inter Milan are closing in on the midfielder. The\u00a0London Evening Standard\u00a0says Inter have stepped up their efforts to sign Obi Mikel this summer in a deal worth in excess of \u00a310million. The Nigeria international has been at the club for eight years having been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[84,60,82],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489"}],"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=3489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3492,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions\/3492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}