{"id":4523,"date":"2014-08-14T04:00:58","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T04:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=4523"},"modified":"2014-08-14T04:00:58","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T04:00:58","slug":"luke-shaw-is-set-to-miss-first-four-weeks-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/luke-shaw-is-set-to-miss-first-four-weeks-of-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Shaw is Set to Miss First Four Weeks of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United left-back Luke Shaw has been ruled out for four weeks with a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<p>This came after Louis van Gaal openly criticised the former Southampton defender&#8217;s fitness, claiming that the 19-year-old returned from World Cup duty out-of-shape.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think he needs to be fit and he is not very fit, therefore he can&#8217;t perform what I want,&#8221; said the Dutchman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He has to be fit first and to train individually.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This means that Shaw will likely miss United&#8217;s opening three Premier League fixtures against Swansea, Sunderland and Burnley.<\/p>\n<p>With the Old Trafford side lacking in depth at the left-back position following the departure of Patrice Evra earlier this summer, the club have been linked with moves for Sporting&#8217;s Argentina defender Marcos Rojo and Ajax&#8217;s Daley Blind.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United left-back Luke Shaw has been ruled out for four weeks with a hamstring injury. This came after Louis van Gaal openly criticised the former Southampton defender&#8217;s fitness, claiming that the 19-year-old returned from World Cup duty out-of-shape. &#8220;I think he needs to be fit and he is not very fit, therefore he can&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4525,"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\/4523"}],"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=4523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4526,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523\/revisions\/4526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}