{"id":132814,"date":"2019-07-04T18:29:06","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T17:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=132814"},"modified":"2019-07-04T18:29:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T17:29:40","slug":"transfer-former-epl-champions-finally-sign-top-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=132814","title":{"rendered":"Transfer: Former EPL champions finally sign top forward"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Leicester City have completed the signing of Forward Ayoze Perez from Newcastle United for \u00a330million.<\/p>\n

Perez signed a four-year deal with the former English Premier League, EPL, champions.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old becomes Leicester City manager, Brendan Rodgers\u2019 second summer signing at the King Power Stadium following the arrival of James Justin from Luton Town.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very happy and very pleased. I\u2019m very proud to be part of the Leicester family and I can\u2019t wait to get started,\u201d Perez told Leicester\u2019s official website on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe club want to keep growing as much as they can and that\u2019s something I like.<\/p>\n

\u201cI spoke with the manager and that was important. That made me feel very comfortable about the decision to come here.\u201d<\/p>\n

On his part, Leicester manager, Brendan Rodgers said: \u201cI think Ayoze will be a wonderful addition to the squad.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s quick, has a good eye for goal and he\u2019s experienced in the Premier League too.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he\u2019s a player who will excite our supporters, and his style is one that I believe complements the options and quality that we already have here at the football club.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leicester City have completed the signing of Forward Ayoze Perez from Newcastle United for \u00a330million. Perez signed a four-year deal with the former English Premier League, EPL, champions. The 25-year-old becomes Leicester City manager, Brendan Rodgers\u2019 second summer signing at the King Power Stadium following the arrival of James Justin from Luton Town. \u201cI\u2019m very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132815,"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":[6936],"class_list":["post-132814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-leicester-city"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132814","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=132814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/132815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}