{"id":70217,"date":"2018-12-16T10:40:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T09:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=70217"},"modified":"2018-12-16T10:41:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T09:41:29","slug":"epl-mourinho-reacts-as-smalling-signs-new-manchester-united-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=70217","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Mourinho reacts as Smalling signs new Manchester United contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/EPL-Mourinho-reacts-as-Smalling-signs-new-Manchester-United-contract.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Manchester United manager, Jose Mourinho, has expressed his happiness at the news that Chris Smalling has signed a new long-term deal.<\/p>\n<p>Smalling has been in talks with United for several months, with the defender seeking a big wage bump after eight years at the club.<\/p>\n<p>The England international has now extended his deal until 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Although United are in the hunt for a new centre-back in January, Mourinho says he is \u201cvery happy\u201d Smalling is on board for the long-term.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very happy Chris has signed a new contract.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChris has been with the club for a number of years and is now one of the senior players within our squad,\u201d Mourinho told United\u2019s official website.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United manager, Jose Mourinho, has expressed his happiness at the news that Chris Smalling has signed a new long-term deal. Smalling has been in talks with United for several months, with the defender seeking a big wage bump after eight years at the club. The England international has now extended his deal until 2022. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70218,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[7644,1406,8896],"class_list":["post-70217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-jose-mourinho","tag-manchester-united","tag-smalling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70217","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=70217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}