{"id":107149,"date":"2019-04-14T22:49:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T21:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=107149"},"modified":"2019-04-14T22:49:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T21:49:35","slug":"epl-solskjaer-to-name-new-manchester-united-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=107149","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Solskjaer to name new Manchester United captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Man-Utd-vs-West-Ham-Solskjaer-hints-at-new-position-for-Phil-Jones.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Manchester United manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, is ready to make Paul Pogba his new captain, after Antonio Valencia leaves the club this summer, the Daily Mirror reports.<\/p>\n<p>Valencia\u2019s 10-year spell at Old Trafford is set to come to an end, with United refusing to offer the veteran defender a new contract.<\/p>\n<p>David De Gea, Chris Smalling and Pogba have all worn the armband this season, but the Frenchman will be offered it on a full-time basis.<\/p>\n<p>Pogba has impressed since Solskjaer returned to Manchester United in December, scoring 11 goals including Saturday\u2019s brace against West Ham.<\/p>\n<p>The midfielder has been linked with a move to Real Madrid, but United are unwilling to sell and want to hand him the captaincy to give him more responsibility.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, is ready to make Paul Pogba his new captain, after Antonio Valencia leaves the club this summer, the Daily Mirror reports. Valencia\u2019s 10-year spell at Old Trafford is set to come to an end, with United refusing to offer the veteran defender a new contract. David De Gea, Chris [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[1406,9023],"class_list":["post-107149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-manchester-united","tag-solksjaer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/106723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}