{"id":137042,"date":"2019-07-20T09:40:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T08:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=137042"},"modified":"2019-07-20T09:41:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T08:41:23","slug":"transfer-barcelona-set-to-land-david-alaba-from-bayern-munich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=137042","title":{"rendered":"Transfer: Barcelona set to land David Alaba from Bayern Munich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Transfer-Barcelona-set-to-land-David-Alaba-from-Bayern-Munich.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Barcelona have made Bayern Munich defender, David Alaba, their No. 1 target to provide competition for Jordi Alba, ESPN reports.<\/p>\n<p>The LaLiga champions are also considering Augsburg\u2019s Philipp Max and Real Betis\u2019 Junior Firpo as alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>Alaba, 27, offered himself to Barca through his agents several weeks back and is the club\u2019s first choice due to his versatility and experience at the top level.<\/p>\n<p>Barca believe he would bring competition for Alba, who is the only left-back in Ernesto Valverde\u2019s squad.<\/p>\n<p>Also the Spanish club like the fact he can play in the middle of the back four, after missing out on Matthijs de Ligt to Juventus.<\/p>\n<p>He could also provide cover for Sergio Busquets in midfield if needed.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Alaba\u2019s desire to make the move, negotiations with Bayern are not expected to be easy.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona have made Bayern Munich defender, David Alaba, their No. 1 target to provide competition for Jordi Alba, ESPN reports. The LaLiga champions are also considering Augsburg\u2019s Philipp Max and Real Betis\u2019 Junior Firpo as alternatives. Alaba, 27, offered himself to Barca through his agents several weeks back and is the club\u2019s first choice due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":137043,"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-137042","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\/137042","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=137042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/137043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}