{"id":4168,"date":"2014-05-22T04:10:25","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T04:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=4168"},"modified":"2014-05-22T04:23:44","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T04:23:44","slug":"van-gaal-close-to-completing-his-first-double-signing-for-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/van-gaal-close-to-completing-his-first-double-signing-for-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Gaal Close To Completing His First Double Signing For United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United are almost certain to complete a double swoop for Toni Kroos and Luke Shaw.<\/p>\n<p>United have finally agreed a deal in principle with Bayern Munich for Kroos after two months of negotiations, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Germany midfielder, 24, has a year left on his contract at Bayern and he&#8217;s been unable to agree a new deal.<\/p>\n<p>Van Gaal is a big fan of the Munich star, who also caught the attention of David Moyes before he was shown the Old Trafford door.<\/p>\n<p>Tthe deal is all but done and the 18-year-old left-back will become Van Gaal&#8217;s first signing.<\/p>\n<p>The move could be completed before the start of this summer&#8217;s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Van Gaal has been given a \u00a3200m transfer kitty to spend this summer as he goes about overhauling the United squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United are almost certain to complete a double swoop for Toni Kroos and Luke Shaw. United have finally agreed a deal in principle with Bayern Munich for Kroos after two months of negotiations, according to reports. The Germany midfielder, 24, has a year left on his contract at Bayern and he&#8217;s been unable to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4174,"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\/4168"}],"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=4168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4170,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4168\/revisions\/4170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}