{"id":160349,"date":"2019-10-14T23:26:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T22:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=160349"},"modified":"2019-10-15T13:24:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T12:24:23","slug":"club-snubs-wenger-after-mourinho-rejected-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=160349","title":{"rendered":"Club snubs Wenger after Mourinho rejected job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Club-snubs-Wenger-after-Mourinho-rejected-job.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Lyon have announced Rudi Garcia as their new head coach.<\/p>\n<p>The Ligue 1 outfit have picked Garcia ahead of Laurent Blanc and Arsene Wenger, while Jose Mourinho turned down a meeting with the club, ESPN reports.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia, 55, became the front runner after impressing in his presentation and agreeing to take over the existing staff.<\/p>\n<p>Wenger was also interested in replacing former boss Sylvinho, who was sacked last week after just two months in charge but was never invited to meet the Lyon hierarchy.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed Blanc came much closer to getting the job, having had two long meetings with the club.<\/p>\n<p>The former Paris Saint Germain manager was the favourite to become the new head coach but wanted to employ a large backroom team of his own, including two assistants and a fitness coach.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lyon have announced Rudi Garcia as their new head coach. The Ligue 1 outfit have picked Garcia ahead of Laurent Blanc and Arsene Wenger, while Jose Mourinho turned down a meeting with the club, ESPN reports. Garcia, 55, became the front runner after impressing in his presentation and agreeing to take over the existing staff. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":160350,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,7082,13093],"class_list":["post-160349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-arsene-wenger","tag-lyon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160349","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=160349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/160350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}