{"id":3878,"date":"2014-05-03T02:16:11","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T02:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=3878"},"modified":"2014-05-03T03:17:10","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T03:17:10","slug":"brendan-rodgers-keen-on-citys-utility-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/brendan-rodgers-keen-on-citys-utility-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Rodgers Keen On City&#8217;s Utility Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>Manchester City&#8217;s defender, Micah Richards is a \u00a37million summer transfer target for Liverpool.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The 25 year old is likely to be allowed to leave the Etihad after deciding not to take up a new five-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Reds boss Brendan Rodgers\u00a0believes Richards would be perfect for his squad as he can play right-back and centre-half, and only has one year left on his contract.<\/p>\n<p>The England star hopes that a fresh start will reignite his career and Liverpool are keen to extend their squad for the Champions League next season.<\/p>\n<p>The only stumbling block is whether City will sell Richards to a rival \u2013 and there is also interest from AC Milan and Tottenham.<\/p>\n<p>Sevilla are keen on signing Liverpool\u2019s Moroccan winger Oussama Assaidi, 25, for \u00a32m. He has been loaned to Stoke this term, but has suffered a knee injury.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City&#8217;s defender, Micah Richards is a \u00a37million summer transfer target for Liverpool. The 25 year old is likely to be allowed to leave the Etihad after deciding not to take up a new five-year deal. Reds boss Brendan Rodgers\u00a0believes Richards would be perfect for his squad as he can play right-back and centre-half, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3879,"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\/3878"}],"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=3878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3880,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878\/revisions\/3880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}