{"id":108072,"date":"2019-04-17T16:21:59","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T15:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=108072"},"modified":"2019-04-17T16:22:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T15:22:13","slug":"epl-solskjaer-reveals-first-player-man-united-will-sign-after-champions-league-3-0-defeat-to-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=108072","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Solskjaer reveals first player Man United will sign after Champions League 3-0 defeat to Barcelona"},"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, has identified the first player the club will sign following their Champions League quarter-final second leg 3-0 defeat to Barcelona on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona captain, Lionel Messi netted twice and set up midfielder, Philippe Coutinho for the third goal, as Ernesto Valverde\u2019s men qualified for the semi-final on a 4-0 aggregate.<\/p>\n<p>According to Daily Mail, Solskjaer wants to sign Crystal Palace right-back, Aaron Wan-Bissaka, as his first signing for the club this summer transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>The report also claimed that Man United\u2019s chiefs have given Solskjaer the \u201cgreen light\u201d to pursue a deal for the 21-year-old, who has made 31 English Premier League (EPL) appearances this season for Palace.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after Man United\u2019s 3-0 defeat to Barcelona on Tuesday night, Solsjkaer admitted that Man United have a big rebuilding job on their hands ahead of next season.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cWe know there\u2019s work to be done. I\u2019ve said all along that this isn\u2019t going to change overnight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe next few years are going to be massive for us to get to the level that Barcelona and other teams are at.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Man United will now tackle Everton in their next fixture in the Premier League on Sunday.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, has identified the first player the club will sign following their Champions League quarter-final second leg 3-0 defeat to Barcelona on Tuesday. Barcelona captain, Lionel Messi netted twice and set up midfielder, Philippe Coutinho for the third goal, as Ernesto Valverde\u2019s men qualified for the semi-final on a 4-0 [&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],"class_list":["post-108072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-manchester-united"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108072","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=108072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108072\/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=108072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}