{"id":124022,"date":"2019-06-06T13:33:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T12:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=124022"},"modified":"2019-06-06T15:37:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T14:37:25","slug":"transfer-key-barcelona-figure-mocks-manchester-united-for-trying-to-sign-de-ligt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=124022","title":{"rendered":"Transfer: Key Barcelona figure mocks Manchester United for trying to sign De Ligt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Transfer-Key-Barcelona-figure-mocks-Manchester-United-for-trying-to-sign-De-Ligt.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">A senior figure at Barcelona has likened Manchester United to a Chinese Super League club and suggests Matthijs de Ligt would be damaging his career if he joined Old Trafford, the UK Independent reports.<\/p>\n<p>United are reportedly ready to make De Ligt the highest-paid teenager in world football with a contract offer worth \u00a3350,000 a week.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona, meanwhile, have reportedly agreed a \u20ac70m (\u00a361.7m) transfer fee with Ajax, but are refusing to meet the demands of De Ligt\u2019s agent Mino Raiola.<\/p>\n<p>The LaLiga giants are confident of wrapping up the deal and reacted with \u201cbemusement\u201d when it was put to them that United could win the battle for the Dutch defender.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the state, they\u2019re in, it\u2019s not far off picking the Chinese league, career-wise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019d be sacrificing development and ambition for money in the same way,\u201d the Barcelona source said.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior figure at Barcelona has likened Manchester United to a Chinese Super League club and suggests Matthijs de Ligt would be damaging his career if he joined Old Trafford, the UK Independent reports. United are reportedly ready to make De Ligt the highest-paid teenager in world football with a contract offer worth \u00a3350,000 a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":124023,"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":[34,1406],"class_list":["post-124022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-barcelona","tag-manchester-united"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124022","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=124022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/124023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}