
{"id":4459,"date":"2014-07-14T16:36:39","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T16:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=4459"},"modified":"2014-07-14T16:36:39","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T16:36:39","slug":"chelsea-drogbas-return-is-a-step-closer-as-mourinho-eyes-filipe-luis-cavani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/chelsea-drogbas-return-is-a-step-closer-as-mourinho-eyes-filipe-luis-cavani\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Drogba&#8217;s Return is a Step Closer, as Mourinho Eyes Filipe Luis, Cavani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Didier Drogba could be set for a return to Stamford Bridge after the Blues moved a step closer to making space for the Ivory Coast veteran.<\/p>\n<p>Out of favour striker Demba Ba is set to join Beskitas on a season-long loan, paving way for Drogba&#8217;s return as a player &#8211; coach.<\/p>\n<p>Filipe Luis is set to complete his switch to west London after reports from Spain indicated he will be jetting to England for a medical.<\/p>\n<p>Blues boss Jose Mourinho has earmarked the Atletico Madrid ace as the ideal man to replace Ashley Cole as the Blues&#8217; No.1 left-back.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea are on alert after reports that Edinson Cavani is desperate for a switch to the Premier League this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Jose Mourinho is lining up a swoop for France and Real Madrid star Raphael Varane.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues boss is on the lookout for a replacement central defender after selling David Luiz to PSG for \u00a350m.<\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese looks set to miss out on a reunion with Germany ace Sami Khedira, however, with the Real Madrid man set to join Arsenal for \u00a323m.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues have given up hope of signing Liverpool target Lazar Markovic this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The Benfica ace is set to complete a \u00a320m switch to Anfield within days after Chelsea abandoned their pursuit of the player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Didier Drogba could be set for a return to Stamford Bridge after the Blues moved a step closer to making space for the Ivory Coast veteran. Out of favour striker Demba Ba is set to join Beskitas on a season-long loan, paving way for Drogba&#8217;s return as a player &#8211; coach. Filipe Luis is set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4462,"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\/4459"}],"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=4459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4460,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4459\/revisions\/4460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}