{"id":72667,"date":"2018-12-24T16:56:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T15:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=72667"},"modified":"2018-12-24T16:57:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T15:57:02","slug":"epl-chelsea-lead-race-to-sign-new-midfielder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=72667","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Chelsea lead race to sign new midfielder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Nabil-Fekir-971955.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Former Premier League champions, Chelsea are in pole position to sign midfielder, Nabil Fekir from French Ligue 1 side, Lyon.<\/p>\n<p>According to L\u2019Equipe, the Blues have already begun talks with Lyon over the possibility of signing the player next summer.<\/p>\n<p>Fekir, who has less than 18 months in his current deal at Lyon, is yet to sign a new contract with the club.<\/p>\n<p>Fekir was close to joining Liverpool in the summer after a \u00a353 million fee was agreed with Lyon.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old had completed a medical at France\u2019s Clairefontaine training base and even held interviews with Liverpool\u2019s media team.<\/p>\n<p>But Jurgen Klopp\u2019s side opted not to go through with the deal after concerns were raised over his right knee.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea will tackle Watford on Wednesday in the Premier League fixture.<\/p>\n<p>Maurizio Sarri\u2019s side head to the game after losing 1-0 to Leicester City over the weekend.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Premier League champions, Chelsea are in pole position to sign midfielder, Nabil Fekir from French Ligue 1 side, Lyon. According to L\u2019Equipe, the Blues have already begun talks with Lyon over the possibility of signing the player next summer. Fekir, who has less than 18 months in his current deal at Lyon, is yet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35022,"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":[1397],"class_list":["post-72667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chelsea"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72667","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=72667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}