{"id":151029,"date":"2019-09-10T18:37:28","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T17:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=151029"},"modified":"2019-09-10T18:37:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T17:37:30","slug":"ukraine-vs-nigeria-super-eagles-midfielder-eyes-epl-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=151029","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine vs Nigeria: Super Eagles midfielder eyes EPL move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Transfer-Nigerias-most-expensive-player-joins-new-club.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Super Eagles midfielder, John Ogu, has admitted he is keen to play in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old is currently a free agent, after leaving Israeli side Hapoel Beer Sheva after five years.<\/p>\n<p>During his time there, he won three league titles and was voted the best foreign player in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Ogu, who made his Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) debut this year is a huge Arsenal fan and says that a move to England will be a dream.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPremier League is one of the best leagues in the world and a dream for every footballer,\u201d he told SportingLife.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know destiny hasn\u2019t put me there but sometimes what you want in life you don\u2019t get, so I\u2019m just trying to stay positive but if a premier league club comes \u2013 I\u2019ll run with all my energy to grab the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome might say you don\u2019t have the pace for the premier league but there are people currently in the league that I\u2019m faster than. People have their own opinion about players \u2013 anyone can say whatever they like but for me as a player whenever I\u2019m on the pitch I don\u2019t care \u2013 I just do what I do best. Yeah, so if a premier league side comes, I will take it.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles midfielder, John Ogu, has admitted he is keen to play in the Premier League. The 31-year-old is currently a free agent, after leaving Israeli side Hapoel Beer Sheva after five years. During his time there, he won three league titles and was voted the best foreign player in 2016. Ogu, who made his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128699,"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-151029","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\/151029","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=151029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/128699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}