{"id":117140,"date":"2019-05-14T20:28:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T19:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=117140"},"modified":"2019-05-14T20:29:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T19:29:04","slug":"epl-man-united-identify-two-defenders-to-sign-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=117140","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Man United identify two defenders to sign this summer"},"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 boss, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, has identified Napoli\u2019s Kalidou Koulibali and Leicester City\u2019s Harry Maguire, as possible recruitments this summer, according to Independent UK.<\/p>\n<p>Solskjaer sees his centre-half as a key area for improvement amid what is planned to be an extensive overhaul at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>Before his dismissal, former manager Jose Mourinho had insisted the position had to be improved upon.<\/p>\n<p>Koulibaly has long been a desired target for the Red Devils but sources told the newspaper that the current asking price of over \u00a390m is far too much.<\/p>\n<p>There are also options of signing Internazionale\u2019s Milab Skriniar or Tobi Alderweireld from Tottenham.<\/p>\n<p>But United would prefer to go for younger players who can slot into the team right away, as well as have the scope to improve.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United boss, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, has identified Napoli\u2019s Kalidou Koulibali and Leicester City\u2019s Harry Maguire, as possible recruitments this summer, according to Independent UK. Solskjaer sees his centre-half as a key area for improvement amid what is planned to be an extensive overhaul at Old Trafford. Before his dismissal, former manager Jose Mourinho had [&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":[1406,8961],"class_list":["post-117140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-manchester-united","tag-solskjaer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117140","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=117140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117140\/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=117140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}