{"id":147037,"date":"2019-08-27T11:20:41","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T10:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=147037"},"modified":"2019-08-27T11:41:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T10:41:14","slug":"epl-man-utd-midfielder-to-have-showdown-talks-with-solskjaer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=147037","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Man Utd midfielder to have showdown talks with Solskjaer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/EPL-Man-Utd-midfielder-to-have-showdown-talks-with-Solskjaer.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Manchester United midfielder, Nemanja Matic, demanded showdown talks with manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, after losing his first-team place at Old Trafford, the UK Sun reports.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old has been ousted from his central midfield role by youngster Scott McTominay and has not played a minute of United\u2019s opening three matches.<\/p>\n<p>Solskjaer has left the Serbian on the bench for each fixture, with Matic now keen to get some clarity on his future at the club.<\/p>\n<p>That has been all the more concerning for Matic, following the departures of fellow central midfielders Marouane Fellaini and Ander Herrera.<\/p>\n<p>Matic was a firm favourite under former boss, Jose Mourinho, who signed him from Chelsea for \u00a340million in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>But Solskjaer has not started him in competitive action, since United\u2019s defeat to Huddersfield at the first week of May.<\/p>\n<p>With United\u2019s focus clearly now on young, hungry players, Matic fears his advancing years are pushing him further towards the Old Trafford exit door.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United midfielder, Nemanja Matic, demanded showdown talks with manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, after losing his first-team place at Old Trafford, the UK Sun reports. The 31-year-old has been ousted from his central midfield role by youngster Scott McTominay and has not played a minute of United\u2019s opening three matches. Solskjaer has left the Serbian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147038,"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":[1406,13099,8961],"class_list":["post-147037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-manchester-united","tag-nemanja-matic","tag-solskjaer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147037","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=147037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/147038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}