{"id":202357,"date":"2020-03-17T23:57:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T22:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=202357"},"modified":"2020-03-18T00:07:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T23:07:36","slug":"coronavirus-mikel-obis-contract-terminated-after-he-refused-to-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=202357","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Mikel Obi&#8217;s contract terminated after he refused to play"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">John Obi Mikel\u2019s contract with Trabzonspor has been terminated by mutual consent, the club has announced.<br \/>\nMikel joined the Turkish club as a free agent on a two-year deal last summer.<br \/>\nNo reason was given for the mutual termination of the contract, but Trabzonspor confirmed the former Super Eagles captain gave up his remaining wages.<br \/>\n\u201cThe professional football player agreement between our company and John Obi Mikel on 30.06.2019 start date 31.05.2021 has been mutually terminated.<br \/>\n\u201cWith a mutual termination agreement, the football player gave up all his forward-looking receivables,\u201d the statement read.<br \/>\nLast weekend, Mikel Obi criticised Turkish football authorities, for not suspending the Super Lig season despite the spread of the coronavirus across Europe.<br \/>\nThe Nigerian then refused to come off the bench for their 1-1 draw with Istanbul Basaksehir.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Obi Mikel\u2019s contract with Trabzonspor has been terminated by mutual consent, the club has announced. Mikel joined the Turkish club as a free agent on a two-year deal last summer. No reason was given for the mutual termination of the contract, but Trabzonspor confirmed the former Super Eagles captain gave up his remaining wages. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":202358,"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":[2658,7013,7487],"class_list":["post-202357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-mikel-obi","tag-turkey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202357","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=202357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/202358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}