{"id":4090,"date":"2014-05-18T05:12:01","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T05:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=4090"},"modified":"2014-05-18T05:12:01","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T05:12:01","slug":"liverpool-chases-barcelonas-alexis-sanchez-with-18m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/liverpool-chases-barcelonas-alexis-sanchez-with-18m\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool Chases Barcelona&#8217;s Alexis Sanchez With \u00a318m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><\/em>Liverpool want Barcelona\u2019s Alexis Sanchez in an \u00a318million deal as they build up their squad for a return to the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool, like Arsenal, \u00a0have been told Sanchez wants to quit Barca because he wants more starts.<\/p>\n<p>A deal won\u2019t be done, though, until Sanchez, 25, has played for Chile at the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>He cost Barca \u00a325million when he moved from Udinese and earns \u00a390k-a-week at the Nou Camp.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez, who can operate either as a striker or on the wing, gave an eye catching performance when Chile defeated England at Wembley in November.<\/p>\n<p>He scored both goals in Chile\u2019s 2-0 win.<\/p>\n<p>The arrival of Sanchez could see the departure of Italian Fabio Borini, who has just returned to Liverpool after being on loan to Sunderland last season.<\/p>\n<p>Kop boss Brendan Rodgers is already chasing Southampton\u2019s England talent Adam Lallana.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool want Barcelona\u2019s Alexis Sanchez in an \u00a318million deal as they build up their squad for a return to the Champions League. Liverpool, like Arsenal, \u00a0have been told Sanchez wants to quit Barca because he wants more starts. A deal won\u2019t be done, though, until Sanchez, 25, has played for Chile at the World Cup. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4091,"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\/4090"}],"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=4090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4092,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090\/revisions\/4092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}