{"id":416478,"date":"2021-11-20T21:16:02","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T20:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=416478"},"modified":"2021-11-20T21:24:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T20:24:22","slug":"epl-pay-rudiger-whatever-he-wants-ferdinand-tells-chelsea-after-3-0-win-over-leicester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=416478","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Pay Rudiger whatever he wants &#8211; Ferdinand tells Chelsea after 3-0 win over Leicester"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Manchester United legend, Rio Ferdinand has told Chelsea\u2019s board to pay contract give Antonio Rudiger whatever he wants for the German defender to remain at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Ferdinand made the plea after the Germany International gave another superb performance in Saturday\u2019s 3-0 win over Leicester City on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Rudiger put the visitors ahead with a superb header from Ben Chiwell\u2019a corner kick, while N\u2019Golo Kante and substitute Christian Pulisic also netted for the west London side.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea are believed to be reluctant to cave into Rudiger\u2019s demands, but Ferdinand advised, \u201cWell I think they\u2019ve got to pay him so he is feeling that he\u2019s getting paid what he feels he should be, which is at the upper echelons of the squad,\u201d he said on BT Sport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWherever the highest earners are, I think he sees himself as part of that. If you look in this squad of players you wouldn\u2019t want to lose, for a number of week or a number of games, he\u2019d be one of the first on your list in terms of you\u2019d want to keep him in there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause his influence, he\u2019s aggressive, he sets the tone a lot of the time, and when they need to shut the door at the back he\u2019s normally the one who puts his foot in where it hurts.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United legend, Rio Ferdinand has told Chelsea\u2019s board to pay contract give Antonio Rudiger whatever he wants for the German defender to remain at Stamford Bridge. Ferdinand made the plea after the Germany International gave another superb performance in Saturday\u2019s 3-0 win over Leicester City on Saturday. Rudiger put the visitors ahead with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":413746,"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":[13665,3],"tags":[2658,1397,13943],"class_list":["post-416478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-a","tag-chelsea","tag-rudiger"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416478","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=416478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/413746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}