{"id":3643,"date":"2014-04-20T03:51:40","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T03:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=3643"},"modified":"2014-04-20T03:51:40","modified_gmt":"2014-04-20T03:51:40","slug":"gunners-raid-southampton-academy-callum-is-wengers-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/gunners-raid-southampton-academy-callum-is-wengers-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunners Raid Southampton Academy. Callum Is Wenger&#8217;s Next"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"row1\">\n<div id=\"row1\">\n<figure><figcaption>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Arsenal are trying to snatch the next Southampton super babe-Callum Slattery.<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners plan to raid English football\u2019s top academy \u2018nursery\u2019 for the teenage midfield schemer.<\/p>\n<p>Slattery, 16, has been offered a pro Saints contract and plays regularly for older teams within their youth ranks.<\/p>\n<p>But the kid, who is following in the footsteps of Gareth Bale and Theo Walcott, has yet to commit.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal even sent their top scout Steve Rowley to watch Slattery in a recent game and want to talk to him.<\/p>\n<p>Slattery will have to decide whether to take his chances of making the first team at Arsenal or staying with his local side.<\/p>\n<p>Saints are anxious to keep Slattery, who would cost a sizeable fee at a tribunal, but could still be a bargain if he proves as good as other discoveries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal are trying to snatch the next Southampton super babe-Callum Slattery. The Gunners plan to raid English football\u2019s top academy \u2018nursery\u2019 for the teenage midfield schemer. Slattery, 16, has been offered a pro Saints contract and plays regularly for older teams within their youth ranks. But the kid, who is following in the footsteps of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3644,"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\/3643"}],"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=3643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3645,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643\/revisions\/3645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}