{"id":3727,"date":"2014-04-24T04:31:32","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T04:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=3727"},"modified":"2014-04-24T04:31:32","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T04:31:32","slug":"hull-manager-understands-alukos-frustrations-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/hull-manager-understands-alukos-frustrations-but\/","title":{"rendered":"Hull Manager Understands Aluko’s Frustrations, But……"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Steve Bruce has slapped a \u00a37m price tag on unsettled Hull hit-man Sone Aluko.<\/p>\n
Aluko is considering his future – just three months after penning a new two-and-a-half-year deal with the Tigers.<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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The Nigerian international striker, 25, is frustrated by a lack of first team opportunities\u00a0following his return\u00a0to fitness after being sidelined for four months with a torn Achilles.<\/p>\n

Crystal Palace are closely monitoring Aluko’s situation, and Eagles boss Tony Pulis is poised to swoop this summer if the former Birmingham and Rangers marksman pushes for a move away from the KC Stadium.<\/p>\n

Steve Bruce admits he understands Aluko’s frustrations but insists the Nigerian international still has a future at the club.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

But City chief Bruce made it clear that London-born Aluko will not be allowed to leave on the cheap.<\/p>\n

Bruce said: “In my eyes, Sone is a \u00a37m player. I can understand his frustration because, if you are not playing and you’ve got something about you, then of course you question it.<\/p>\n

“At the end of the day a player only thinks of one thing, and that’s himself. I was the same – if you are not playing, you’re not happy.<\/p>\n

“But, just because we paid \u00a37m each for Shane Long and Nikica Jelavic in January, it doesn’t mean Sone is out on his ear.”<\/p>\n

“I see Sone as a big part of what we are trying to do here, but we need to get him fully fit\u00a0and back to being the player I know he is.” Bruce said<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve Bruce has slapped a \u00a37m price tag on unsettled Hull hit-man Sone Aluko. Aluko is considering his future – just three months after penning a new two-and-a-half-year deal with the Tigers. The Nigerian international striker, 25, is frustrated by a lack of first team opportunities\u00a0following his return\u00a0to fitness after being sidelined for four months […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[84,60,80],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727"}],"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=3727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3729,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions\/3729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}