{"id":4597,"date":"2014-08-21T02:33:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T02:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=4597"},"modified":"2014-08-21T14:02:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T14:02:30","slug":"arteta-out-for-two-weeks-as-arsenal-eyes-manolas-from-olympiacos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/arteta-out-for-two-weeks-as-arsenal-eyes-manolas-from-olympiacos\/","title":{"rendered":"Arteta Out For 2 Weeks, as Arsenal Eye Manolas from Olympiacos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lead-text\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<p>Gunners captain Arteta is out for at least two weeks and potentially longer after spraining his ankle in Arsenal\u2019s Champions League draw with Besiktas.<\/p>\n<p>That leaves Arsenal boss Wenger facing a midfield headache as Aaron Ramsey is suspended for the return leg with Besiktas and Arteta is now out of key games.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard is certain to miss Saturday\u2019s trip to Everton, the Besiktas second leg and could be out until beyond the international break in a major setback for the Gunners.<\/p>\n<p>Wenger is likely to find out the full extent of the injury on Thursday but may tempt Arsenal back into the market to try and fill the gap.<\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid are ready to offload Sami Khedira but Arsenal have doubts over him and are unlikely to re-ignite their interest while Sporting Lisbon\u2019s William Carvalho has also been offered.<\/p>\n<p>Wenger was unlikely to sign a midfielder as he believes that department has enough but the Arteta setback may make him think again.<\/p>\n<p>They are in the market for a central defender and it is believed that is still the more likely with Olympiacos defender Kostas Manolas the most likely outcome.<\/p>\n<p>Olympiacos are open to a deal and Arsenal are hoping to get a deal done for the 23-year-old for around \u00a36m.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gunners captain Arteta is out for at least two weeks and potentially longer after spraining his ankle in Arsenal\u2019s Champions League draw with Besiktas. That leaves Arsenal boss Wenger facing a midfield headache as Aaron Ramsey is suspended for the return leg with Besiktas and Arteta is now out of key games. The Spaniard is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,80],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4600,"href":"https:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597\/revisions\/4600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}