{"id":112622,"date":"2019-05-01T15:34:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T14:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=112622"},"modified":"2019-05-01T15:53:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T14:53:34","slug":"barcelona-vs-liverpool-mane-speaks-on-joining-real-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=112622","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona vs Liverpool: Mane speaks on joining Real Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Liverpool forward, Sadio Mane, has downplayed speculation linking him with a move to Real Madrid this summer.<\/p>\n

Real have reportedly made Mane, 27, a top target ahead of the summer transfer window.<\/p>\n

The Senegal international has scored 25 goals this season for the Reds, helping Jurgen Klopp\u2019s side challenge for the Premier League and Champions League.<\/p>\n

In a pre-match press conference ahead of Wednesday\u2019s Champions League semi-final clash at Barcelona, Mane was asked whether he would be interested in playing in Spain and the reports linking him with Real Madrid.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cI think you guys write it [the rumours]. I just read it with my friends.<\/p>\n

\u201cI respect the [Spanish] league, it\u2019s a good league with great players. But the Premier League is also a wonderful league, everyone wants to play here.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have this opportunity [at Liverpool] so I think it\u2019s cool.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Liverpool forward, Sadio Mane, has downplayed speculation linking him with a move to Real Madrid this summer. Real have reportedly made Mane, 27, a top target ahead of the summer transfer window. The Senegal international has scored 25 goals this season for the Reds, helping Jurgen Klopp\u2019s side challenge for the Premier League and Champions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112623,"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":[2658],"class_list":["post-112622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112622","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=112622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/112623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}