{"id":168202,"date":"2019-11-15T23:14:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T22:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=168202"},"modified":"2019-11-15T23:14:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T22:14:44","slug":"epl-barcelona-angry-after-arsenal-signs-striker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=168202","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Barcelona angry after Arsenal signs striker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Transfer-Barcelona\u2019s-target-signs-\u00a3300000-a-week-deal-with-Man-United.png\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Barcelona is not happy after Arsenal beat them in the race to sign Gabriel Martinelli, Mundo Deportivo reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners landed the 18-year-old from Brazilian side Ituano in a \u00a36million deal this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since his arrival, Martinelli has made nine appearances for Arsenal and netted seven times.<\/p>\n<p>However, before his move to the Emirates, the striker had a trial at Manchester United, while he also spent time at Barcelona\u2019s La Masia academy earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>But the Spanish champions decided against signing Martinelli, which allowed Arsenal to move in and secure a deal for the striker.<\/p>\n<p>Barca\u2019s hierarchy are now understood to be upset that they let Martinelli slip through the net, especially as he passed through their own academy just a few months before he opted to join the Gunners.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona is not happy after Arsenal beat them in the race to sign Gabriel Martinelli, Mundo Deportivo reports. The Gunners landed the 18-year-old from Brazilian side Ituano in a \u00a36million deal this summer. Ever since his arrival, Martinelli has made nine appearances for Arsenal and netted seven times. However, before his move to the Emirates, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131743,"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":[2658,4427,34],"class_list":["post-168202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-arsenal","tag-barcelona"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168202","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=168202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/131743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}