{"id":259878,"date":"2020-09-18T18:15:46","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T17:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=259878"},"modified":"2020-09-18T18:16:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T17:16:16","slug":"epl-arteta-reacts-to-gareth-bales-return-to-tottenham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=259878","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Arteta reacts to Gareth Bale&#8217;s return to Tottenham"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Arsenal manager, Mikel Arteta, has insisted Gareth Bale is still one of the best players in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Bale is set to return to Tottenham Hotspur from Real Madrid in a one-year loan deal.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old arrived in London on Friday, along with Madrid teammate Sergio Reguilon, with both players ready to put pen to paper on deals with Spurs.<\/p>\n<p>Bale returns to the club after seven years, while Reguilon joins on a permanent deal.<\/p>\n<p>Arteta is in no doubt about the Welshman\u2019s quality and believes he will enhance the competitiveness of the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Premier League in its history has always had the best players in the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Gareth has been one of the most significant names that left the Premier League years ago to go to Spain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I think it\u2019s positive to bring really important players back to the league and it will be a challenge because we know at his best what he can do,\u201d Arteta told a press conference on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>(DailyPost)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal manager, Mikel Arteta, has insisted Gareth Bale is still one of the best players in the world. Bale is set to return to Tottenham Hotspur from Real Madrid in a one-year loan deal. The 31-year-old arrived in London on Friday, along with Madrid teammate Sergio Reguilon, with both players ready to put pen to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":259879,"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":[4427,13223,9512,5319],"class_list":["post-259878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-arsenal","tag-arteta","tag-epl","tag-tottenham"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259878","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=259878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/259879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}