{"id":138738,"date":"2019-07-27T18:48:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T17:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=138738"},"modified":"2019-07-27T18:48:47","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T17:48:47","slug":"transfer-barcelona-defender-leaves-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=138738","title":{"rendered":"Transfer: Barcelona defender leaves club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Transfer-Barcelona\u2019s-target-signs-\u00a3300000-a-week-deal-with-Man-United.png\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Thomas Vermaelen has ended his five-year spell at Barcelona, by joining Vissel Kobe on a deal that runs until December 2021, Goal reports.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old, whose career has been severely hampered by injuries, joins former Barca team-mates Andres Iniesta and Sergi Samper, ex-Blaugrana man, David Villa and former Arsenal striker Lukas Podolski.<\/p>\n<p>Vermaelen signs for the J-League side on a free transfer, after his contract with the LaLiga giants expired.<\/p>\n<p>He made just 53 appearances in all competitions in four seasons at the Camp Nou.<\/p>\n<p>The Belgian spent the 2016\/2017 campaign on loan at Serie A outfit Roma, playing just 12 games.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Vermaelen has ended his five-year spell at Barcelona, by joining Vissel Kobe on a deal that runs until December 2021, Goal reports. The 33-year-old, whose career has been severely hampered by injuries, joins former Barca team-mates Andres Iniesta and Sergi Samper, ex-Blaugrana man, David Villa and former Arsenal striker Lukas Podolski. Vermaelen signs for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131743,"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],"class_list":["post-138738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-barcelona"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138738","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=138738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/131743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}