{"id":149482,"date":"2019-09-05T08:26:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T07:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=149482"},"modified":"2019-09-05T08:30:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T07:30:25","slug":"mkhitaryan-reveals-why-he-wasnt-happy-at-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=149482","title":{"rendered":"Mkhitaryan reveals why he wasn’t happy at Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Henrikh Mkhitaryan has revealed that he was left unhappy over lack of playing time at Arsenal and that forced him to consider a last minute loan move to Roma.<\/p>\n

The Armenia international was signed in January 2018 by Arsene Wenger, as a replacement for Alexis Sanchez, who left for Old Trafford.<\/p>\n

After creating three goals on his debut, Mkhitaryan\u2019s form dipped and he struggled to cement a regular place in Unai Emery\u2019s team last season.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old made three appearances this season, before leaving for Serie A.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything happened in the last day right after the Tottenham game I got a call from my agent.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe told me that I have to fly to Rome the next day to have a medical with the team and also sign a contract.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a great opportunity for me as I didn\u2019t get a lot of playing time,\u201d Mkhitaryan said ahead of Armenia\u2019s match against Italy.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Henrikh Mkhitaryan has revealed that he was left unhappy over lack of playing time at Arsenal and that forced him to consider a last minute loan move to Roma. The Armenia international was signed in January 2018 by Arsene Wenger, as a replacement for Alexis Sanchez, who left for Old Trafford. After creating three goals […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":149483,"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":[4427,13151,11103],"class_list":["post-149482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-arsenal","tag-mikhtaryan","tag-roma"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149482","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=149482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/149483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}