{"id":112266,"date":"2019-04-30T11:34:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T10:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=112266"},"modified":"2019-04-30T11:50:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T10:50:04","slug":"epl-rio-ferdinand-holds-talks-with-woodward-over-manchester-united-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=112266","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Rio Ferdinand holds talks with Woodward over Manchester United return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/EPL-Rio-Ferdinand-holds-talks-with-Woodward-over-Manchester-United-return.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Manchester United legend, Rio Ferdinand, has held talks with the club\u2019s executive vice-chairman, Ed Woodward, over the possibility of becoming the club\u2019s new sporting director, the UK Metro reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Devils are restructuring behind-the-scenes and are keen to bring back former players to be part of the new set up.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer\u2019s assistant, Mike Phelan, is in talks to become the club\u2019s first-ever technical director too.<\/p>\n<p>But United want another figure to oversee recruitment and strategise off-field management.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Scholes has also been considered for the role, but Ferdinand is believed to be the leading candidate.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United legend, Rio Ferdinand, has held talks with the club\u2019s executive vice-chairman, Ed Woodward, over the possibility of becoming the club\u2019s new sporting director, the UK Metro reports. The Red Devils are restructuring behind-the-scenes and are keen to bring back former players to be part of the new set up. It is understood that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112267,"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":[],"class_list":["post-112266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112266","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=112266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/112267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}