{"id":917,"date":"2014-01-24T15:59:12","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T15:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=917"},"modified":"2014-01-24T16:39:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T16:39:15","slug":"city-manager-backs-wenger-on-mata-move-calls-for-change-of-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/city-manager-backs-wenger-on-mata-move-calls-for-change-of-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"City manager backs Wenger on Mata move as Mourinho hits back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City manager, Manuel Pellegrini has joined Arsene Wenger in criticising Chelsea&#8217;s decision to sell Juan Mata to Manchester United and called for a change to the way the January transfer window operates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;\u2018It is not correct at this stage of the season. Maybe Arsene Wenger had a correct reason, when he pointed out Chelsea have already played United home and away, but my argument is a more general one.&#8221; City manager said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;\u2018I just think if a player plays for a club for more than half of the season, a club with money can take the best players from the other teams.&#8221; He added.<\/p>\n<p>The Manchester City manager admitted United were signing a \u2018very good player\u2019 in \u00a337million playmaker Mata and described it as \u2018strange\u2019 that Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho had not picked him more often.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Jose Mourinho has hit back at Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, saying that Chelsea abide by the rules.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Wenger complaining is normal because he always does,&#8221; said Mourinho.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City manager, Manuel Pellegrini has joined Arsene Wenger in criticising Chelsea&#8217;s decision to sell Juan Mata to Manchester United and called for a change to the way the January transfer window operates. &#8216;\u2018It is not correct at this stage of the season. Maybe Arsene Wenger had a correct reason, when he pointed out Chelsea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":918,"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\/917"}],"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=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":921,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}