{"id":206487,"date":"2020-04-02T10:21:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T09:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=206487"},"modified":"2020-04-02T10:21:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T09:21:44","slug":"coronavirus-mikel-obi-in-talks-with-new-club-after-getting-sacked-at-trabzonspor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=206487","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Mikel Obi in talks with new club after getting sacked at Trabzonspor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">John Mikel Obi is in negotiations with Botafogo over a move, Yahoo Sports reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian club has made an offer to the former Super Eagles midfielder, who is now a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>Mikel Obi\u2019s contract with Trabzonspor was terminated in March, when he refused to play amid the coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old refused to delete an Instagram post criticizing Turkish football authorities, before his deal was cancelled. <\/p>\n<p>It appears Botafogo now sees Mikel as an alternative to Yaya Toure, after failing to sign the Ivorian earlier this year.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Mikel Obi is in negotiations with Botafogo over a move, Yahoo Sports reports. The Brazilian club has made an offer to the former Super Eagles midfielder, who is now a free agent. Mikel Obi\u2019s contract with Trabzonspor was terminated in March, when he refused to play amid the coronavirus outbreak. The 32-year-old refused to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":206488,"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":[2658,14173,12370],"class_list":["post-206487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-coronavirus","tag-john-mikel-obi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206487","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=206487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/206488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}