{"id":389676,"date":"2021-09-01T08:26:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T07:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=389676"},"modified":"2021-09-01T08:31:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T07:31:15","slug":"premier-league-defenders-wont-be-scared-of-you-jordan-tells-ronaldo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=389676","title":{"rendered":"Premier League defenders won&#8217;t be scared of you &#8211; Jordan tells Ronaldo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Former Crystal Palace owner, Simon Jordan has warned returning Manchester United superstar, Cristiano Ronaldo that he will no longer scare defenders in the Premier League.<br \/>\nAccording to him, Ronaldo will struggle against the league\u2019s best defenders.<br \/>\nManchester United made Ronaldo\u2019s return to the club official on Tuesday with the player all but ready to make his second debut for United against Newcastle after the international break.<br \/>\n\u201cIn the big games I don\u2019t think Ronaldo\u2019s going to put the fear of god into Virgil van Dijk,\u201d Jordan told talkSPORT.<br \/>\n\u201cI don\u2019t think Ronaldo will put the fear of god into some of these central defenders.<br \/>\n\u201cBut he will probably put the fear of god into Crystal Palace or Wolverhampton Wanderers or Burnley or Brentford or Newcastle United.<br \/>\n\u201cIf you\u2019ve got big occasion players that are playing against proper centre backs we will see if Ronaldo is still able to turn the screw at a level that I question he\u2019ll be able to do.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s one thing playing in Italian football, which I know is very defensive minded and technical, but it isn\u2019t as physical and it isn\u2019t as fast.<br \/>\n\u201cThere\u2019s going to be a point where Ole Gunnar Solskjaer wins something, if you keep buying \u00a3150million worth of footballers you\u2019re going to win something somewhere along the line!\u201d<\/div>\n<p><strong><em>(DailyPost)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Crystal Palace owner, Simon Jordan has warned returning Manchester United superstar, Cristiano Ronaldo that he will no longer scare defenders in the Premier League. According to him, Ronaldo will struggle against the league\u2019s best defenders. Manchester United made Ronaldo\u2019s return to the club official on Tuesday with the player all but ready to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":389677,"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":[8922,4665,8961],"class_list":["post-389676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-man-united","tag-ronaldo","tag-solskjaer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389676","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=389676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/389677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}