{"id":164892,"date":"2019-11-02T14:27:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T13:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=164892"},"modified":"2019-11-02T14:27:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T13:27:32","slug":"epl-what-brendan-rodgers-said-about-kelechi-iheanacho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=164892","title":{"rendered":"EPL: What Brendan Rodgers said about Kelechi Iheanacho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/EPL-Chelsea-legend-attacks-Kelechi-Iheanacho.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Leicester City boss, Brendan Rodgers has given his verdict on Super Eagles striker, Kelechi Iheanacho.<\/p>\n<p>Rodgers confirmed that Iheanacho has a long-term future at the club and is confident he can call upon the Nigerian if he(Rodgers) needs him at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Iheanacho was named in Rodgers\u2019 starting line-up for the first time this season during the 3-1 win over Burton in the Caraboa Cup on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian scored the first goal of the match, following up his goal-scoring cameo at Luton in the previous round.<\/p>\n<p>The former U17 star is yet to feature in the Premier League this season and has only made the matchday squad for one of the past eight league games.<\/p>\n<p>However, the former Celtic boss denied that the Nigeria international is surplus to requirements and praised his level of effort in training.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes [he does have a future long term],\u201d the City boss said at his press conference on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s very much a part of our squad. He trains like an animal every day, he\u2019s so good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I know if need to use him at the weekend, he\u2019ll be ready.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leicester City boss, Brendan Rodgers has given his verdict on Super Eagles striker, Kelechi Iheanacho. Rodgers confirmed that Iheanacho has a long-term future at the club and is confident he can call upon the Nigerian if he(Rodgers) needs him at the weekend. Iheanacho was named in Rodgers\u2019 starting line-up for the first time this season [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145635,"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":[2658,11352],"class_list":["post-164892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-kelechi-iheanacho"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164892","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=164892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/145635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}