{"id":3745,"date":"2014-04-25T04:32:21","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T04:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=3745"},"modified":"2014-04-25T04:32:21","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T04:32:21","slug":"arsenal-defender-sets-to-join-nasriclichy-at-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/arsenal-defender-sets-to-join-nasriclichy-at-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal Defender Sets To Join Nasri\/Clichy At City"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<section>Bacary Sagna has decided to quit Arsenal this summer &#8211; and looks set to join Manchester United or rivals City.<\/p>\n<p>The France international left-back has been left disappointed and angry with the Gunners&#8217; failure to reward him with a new deal.<\/p>\n<p>He is out of contract at the end of the season and &#8211; despite interest from Real Madrid,\u00a0Barcelona and Galatasaray, the Frenchman wants to stay in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>The north Londoners offered Sagna, 31, a two-year extension of his current contract, worth \u00a375,000 &#8211; a rise of \u00a315,000 on his current pay.<\/p>\n<p>But he wants three years at \u00a3100,000, plus a signing-on fee.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section>He has had big offers\u00a0from abroad, including Inter Milan, who were willing to pay \u00a390,000 a week for three years.<\/p>\n<p>City look the favourites to land the 31-year-old as he will link up again with former Arsenal team-mates and fellow France internationals\u00a0Gael Clichy and Samir Nasri.<\/p>\n<p>The big-spending Etihad club are ready to step in this summer with a package worth \u00a320m over three years.<\/p>\n<p>A source close to Sagna said: &#8220;He will leave the club 100 per cent &#8211; there is no way he will stay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He feels very heartbroken, disgusted and disrespected by the board and the offers they are making, after being so loyal to the club for so many years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now his focus will be to help his team-mates and the fans by landing the FA Cup and a top four finish.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<div id=\"componentDiv_gig_containerParent\"><\/div>\n<section>\n<div id=\"outbrain_widget_0\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/sport\/football\/375946\/EXCLUSIVE-Bacary-Sagna-to-leave-Arsenal-at-the-end-of-the-season\" data-widget-id=\"AR_5\" data-ob-template=\"DailyStar\" data-ob-mark=\"true\" data-browser=\"chrome\" data-os=\"win32\" data-dynload=\"\">\n<div><wbr \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bacary Sagna has decided to quit Arsenal this summer &#8211; and looks set to join Manchester United or rivals City. The France international left-back has been left disappointed and angry with the Gunners&#8217; failure to reward him with a new deal. He is out of contract at the end of the season and &#8211; despite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3746,"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\/3745"}],"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=3745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3747,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745\/revisions\/3747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}